Name: Hot Topics in Criminal Justice
Brand: Vanderbilt University
Availability: OnlineOnly
Rating: 4.6 (64 reviews)

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课程概述

The American criminal justice system is in need of reform. We incarcerate too many people. We pay insufficient attention to scientific advances that can help separate out the most and least culpable and dangerous. We grant the police far too much power to use force and technological surveillance. As a way of thinking about dealing with these problems, this course examines two over-arching issues: What should we do with people who have committed crime, and how should we identify who they are? On the first issue, we will look closely at the nature and causes of mass incarceration, the death penalty, the lawfulness and usefulness of preventive detention and risk assessment, and the role of the insanity defense and neuroscience in assessing responsibility for crime. On the second issue, we will explore the laws regulating the police use of force, the growing role of technology and big data in facilitating police surveillance and detection and deterrence of crime, and the remedies for police malfeasance, including the exclusionary rule and damages actions. The overall goal is to help thinking individuals assess today’s criminal justice system and consider ways of making it better. After completing this course, participants should be able to: 1. Describe the mass incarceration problem in the United States and why it might exist; 2. Suggest ways of reducing incarceration; 3. Criticize risk assessment instruments and their use in preventive detention schemes; 4. Discuss the pros and cons of the death penalty, the exclusionary rule, and the insanity defense; 5. Analyze the relevance of neurological evidence in a criminal case; 6. Identify some of the reasons innocent people are wrongly convicted; 7. Elaborate on the role race plays at sentencing and in police use of force, stop and frisk and consent searches and 8. List the types of surveillance technology available to police and the constitutional principles that govern their use....

51 - Hot Topics in Criminal Justice 的 64 个评论（共 64 个）

创建者 SARABESHWARAN S

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Sep 2, 2024

Very informative

创建者 alessandro p

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Nov 3, 2022

ottimo corso

创建者 ELISANDRO P D C

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Oct 4, 2024

Excelente

创建者 Ibtissam K

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Dec 8, 2021

PARFAIT

创建者 Ashok K S

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Jul 28, 2021

Superb

创建者 Mateus r

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Jun 16, 2025

good

创建者 Kathy A M

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Feb 20, 2023

The course was very interesting but I was unable to access several of the youtube videos. consequently I was not able to complete the course

创建者 Ryan T

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Jul 3, 2025

Good course to study

创建者 Nathan C

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Feb 1, 2024

really hard course to finish

创建者 josh p

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Jul 16, 2025

I’ve only done the incarceration part. The class is politically biased. I can tell the professors political affiliation by the direction the lecture is going and the specific statistics and information provided. I hate this class. I want to unenroll but it won’t let me. I’m not going to listen to someone bad mouth the bill of rights and continue to take a class from him. The class offended me to the core and I don’t believe there is anything constructive for me to learn from it. I’m not interesting in wasting anymore time. I guess I’m just going to be remove he alerts from my device and let them fail me or drop me on their accord. Either way, I’m not going to be a part of this any longer.

创建者 L A A

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Jan 8, 2025

I think this is for US focussed citizens. I am from the UK and was not particularly interested in the US. Also found the professor difficult to listen to at times and remain focussed.