Eaglecrest High School – Criminal Justice and Law 1

Mar 2026 · 2nd Semester

This course combines Introduction to Criminal Justice (CRJ 1010) and Correctional Process (CRJ 1045). This course introduces students to the basic components of the criminal justice system in the United States. Concepts of crime, crime data, victimization, perspectives and views of crime, theory, and law are discussed. Particular attention to the criminal justice process, interaction and conflict between criminal justice agencies, and current criminal justice issues are examined. Students' examine the history of corrections in America from law enforcement through the administration of justice, probation, prisons, correctional institutions, and parole. This course examines the theories, rationales for punishment, and the political system in which corrections, as a component part of the criminal justice system, needs to operate. The course emphasizes legal, sociological, psychological, and other interdisciplinary approached that effect the operation of a correctional system. This course is a yearlong course. Students will have the opportunity to earn high school credit while at the same time enroll in and earn six community college credits with the opportunity to transfer credit to an institution of higher education.