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2020-2021 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog 
    
2020-2021 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

CRJU 642 - Forensic Psychology and the Criminal Justice System


(3 units)

Prerequisite: Open to Criminology & Criminal Justice master’s students only or graduate advisor permission.
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).