CRJ 349 - Mental Health and Criminal Justice

Semester Hours: 3
This course provides an overview of the criminal justice systems interaction with the field of mental health including critical response (police and first responders to a citizen call), court adjudication (legal competency, civil commitment, and legal determinations of criminal culpability), correctional requirements in treatment and placement, community-police outreach, advocacy for at-risk groups. The course also looks at current trends in forensic psychology within the police force dealing with trauma, occupational burnout, and isolation by criminal justice employees (police and correctional officers).

Pre-requisites: CRJ 140 - Introduction to Criminal Justice and CRJ 203 - Policing in America.

Offered: occasionally.