2025-2026_College Catalog 
    
    May 19, 2025  
2025-2026_College Catalog

AJS 101 - Introduction to Administration of Justice


Credits: 3
Lecture: Three lecture.
Organization and jurisdiction of local, state, and federal law enforcement, judicial and corrections systems, terminology, and constitutional limitations of the system.

Course Outcomes:
Students will be able to:
  1. demonstrate problem solving techniques;
  2. demonstrate instruction interpretation;
  3. demonstrate an understanding of criminal justice vocabulary;                 
  4. explain the structure of the American criminal justice system(s); 
  5. describe how the AJS system(s) is(are) financed for growth and development throughout the United States;
  6. describe the management and organizational processes which allow AJS systems to be successful;
  7. describe the impact which juvenile justice and corrections has had on the American public.


General Education: Social and Behavioral Sciences