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2018-2019 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog 
    
2018-2019 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

CRJU 642 - Forensic Psychology and the Criminal Justice System


(3 units)

Prerequisites: Open to Criminal Justice master’s students only. All others require consent of the Criminal Justice Graduate Advisor.
An interdisciplinary examination of the relationship between psychiatry, clinical psychology, and the criminal justice system with regard to mentally-ill criminal offenders. Focus is on the legal standards for determining various criminal competencies, insanity, diminished capacity, and related defenses of excuse.

Letter grade only (A-F).