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May 01, 2024
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2022-2023 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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CRIM 213 - Field Practice
PROGRAM: Criminal Justice
CREDIT HOURS MIN: 3
LECTURE HOURS MIN: 1
LAB HOURS MIN: 4
DATE OF LAST REVISION: Fall, 2013
Provides hands on training in how to handle various situations encountered by law enforcement agents in the field. The student will study the considerations and intervention techniques used by police in dealing with various types of incidents: suicide management, conflict management, elderly abuse, domestic violence, critical incidents, dealing with street gangs, hate crimes, sexual assault, and criminal profiling, etc.
MAJOR COURSE LEARNING OBJECTIVES: Upon successful completion of this course the student will be expected to:
- Identify critical incidents.
- Identify intervention techniques used to deal with various individuals and groups: Juveniles, elderly, street gangs, suicides, etc.
- Identify and evaluate the risk inherent in working with domestic violence incidents.
- Explain the proper use of criminal profiling techniques and describe their importance in police work.
- Explain the concept of community policing.
- Identify and demonstrate techniques used in conflict resolution.
- Describe how law enforcement agents should interact with the news media.
- Understand basic words/terms and sentences of street level Spanish.
- Identify special considerations employed when working with “Special Persons” i.e. mentally ill, physically challenged, deaf, blind, etc.
- Demonstrate the use of “Verbal Judo” in various law enforcement incidents.
COURSE CONTENT: Topical areas of study include -
- Community policing
- Law enforcement and the media
- Stress
- Suicide management
- Critical incidents
- Conflict management
- Sexual assault
- Post shooting trauma/line of duty death
- Juveniles
- Procedures for death notification
- Hate crimes
- Special persons/mentally ill, deaf, blind, etc.
- Gangs
- Child abuse/molestation
- Verbal Judo
- Street level Spanish
Course Addendum - Syllabus (Click to expand)
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