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Hot Topics in Criminal Justice

Explore critical issues in criminal justice reform, from mass incarceration to police surveillance, with expert analysis of current challenges and solutions.

Explore critical issues in criminal justice reform, from mass incarceration to police surveillance, with expert analysis of current challenges and solutions.

This comprehensive course examines pressing issues in the American criminal justice system, focusing on reform needs. Led by Vanderbilt University expert Christopher Slobogin, it analyzes mass incarceration, death penalty, police powers, and surveillance technology. The curriculum covers both theoretical frameworks and practical implications, exploring solutions to systemic problems while examining scientific advances in criminal justice. Students learn about preventive detention, risk assessment, police use of force, and technological surveillance, gaining insights into modern criminal justice challenges.

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Hot Topics in Criminal Justice

This course includes

18 Hours

Of Self-paced video lessons

Beginner Level

Completion Certificate

awarded on course completion

2,435

What you'll learn

  • Understand the causes and solutions to mass incarceration

  • Analyze death penalty implementation and wrongful convictions

  • Evaluate police use of force and surveillance practices

  • Examine the role of mental illness in criminal justice

  • Assess preventive detention and risk assessment methods

  • Understand legal remedies for police misconduct

Skills you'll gain

criminal justice reform
mass incarceration
police surveillance
death penalty
preventive detention
law enforcement
criminal law
constitutional rights

This course includes:

410 Minutes PreRecorded video

26 quizzes

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FullTime access

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There are 7 modules in this course

This comprehensive course examines critical issues in the American criminal justice system and explores potential reforms. Students learn about mass incarceration, preventive detention, the death penalty, and police practices including use of force and surveillance. The curriculum covers the intersection of science and criminal justice, including risk assessment tools and neuroscience in criminal cases. Special attention is given to racial disparities, wrongful convictions, and the constitutional principles governing law enforcement activities.

Mass Incarceration

Module 1 · 2 Hours to complete

Punishment & Prevention

Module 2 · 3 Hours to complete

Insanity & Neuroscience

Module 3 · 3 Hours to complete

The Death Penalty

Module 4 · 2 Hours to complete

Police Use of Force

Module 5 · 3 Hours to complete

Police Surveillance

Module 6 · 2 Hours to complete

End of Course Final Quiz

Module 7 · 0 Hours to complete

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Instructor

Christopher Slobogin
Christopher Slobogin

4.8 rating

73 Reviews

22,638 Students

1 Course

Milton R. Underwood Chair in Law and Director, Criminal Justice Program

Chris Slobogin, a leading scholar in criminal law, mental health law, and evidence, has authored over 100 works in these fields. Since 2009, he has directed Vanderbilt Law School’s Criminal Justice Program. Ranked among the top five most-cited criminal law professors in recent years, his influential work on the Fourth Amendment, technology, and mental disability has been featured in prestigious publications, including books from the University of Chicago, Harvard, and Oxford, and top law reviews such as Stanford, Virginia, and Georgetown.

Hot Topics in Criminal Justice

This course includes

18 Hours

Of Self-paced video lessons

Beginner Level

Completion Certificate

awarded on course completion

2,435

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4.6 course rating

167 ratings

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