CJ 3230 - Police Ethics and Civil Liability

3 unit(s)

Using a case study, social and legislative analytical approach, this course will explore ethics in law enforcement from its historical roots through contemporary ethical issues. Ethical issues will include areas such as communications, race, sex, excessive physical force, corruption, and conflicts of interest. Civil liability will focus on the tort liability for certain statutory and ethical violations.

Prerequisites: CJ 2250 and CJ 2280, or consent of instructor.

Course Learning Outcomes List
This course is designed to provide the criminal justice student with:

A thorough understanding of tort liability, as opposed to criminal liability, for criminal justice practitioners, more specifically, law enforcement officers;
A new legal area of vicarious liability and deep pocket litigation for officers’ ethical misconduct; and
Through the exposure, lecture, discussion, and research in this course, the student will learn some of the primary ways sought to correct, curtail, and hopefully eradicate police corruption and brutality.

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