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Academic Credit For Police And Correctional Academy Courses: The Criminal Justice Training Assessment (Cjta) Approach, Jack Greene, Sutham Cheurprakobkit, Angela West Crews, Gordon A. Crews, Prahba Unnithan, Eric C. Schultz
Academic Credit For Police And Correctional Academy Courses: The Criminal Justice Training Assessment (Cjta) Approach, Jack Greene, Sutham Cheurprakobkit, Angela West Crews, Gordon A. Crews, Prahba Unnithan, Eric C. Schultz
Criminal Justice Faculty Research
For the past few years, a federal grant sponsored by the Department of Justice has allowed teams consisting of faculty (from two-year and four-year colleges) and practitioners to assess the training curricula of various United States law enforcement and correctional agencies. Although traditional wisdom in academia is against viewing training academy courses as academically credible, the teams, after carefully assessing many training curricula, have agreed to give academic credit recommendation to those deserving curricula. In the end the CJTA project has not only helped to connect the academic world with the world of practitioners, but also generated rich data on …
Dressed To Kill? School Dress Codes And Student Rights Vs. School Safety Issues, Michelle Belanger, Sylvere Ap Leanan, John D. Hewitt, Robert Regoli, Jeffrey P. Rush, Ereka Watson, Gordon A. Crews
Dressed To Kill? School Dress Codes And Student Rights Vs. School Safety Issues, Michelle Belanger, Sylvere Ap Leanan, John D. Hewitt, Robert Regoli, Jeffrey P. Rush, Ereka Watson, Gordon A. Crews
Criminal Justice Faculty Publications and Presentations
•Increasing numbers of cases involving litigation around the issue of student dress/grooming codes. •Students in many of these cases are involved in Goth, Occult, or alternative belief systems and practices and have expressed their participation through their appearance (e.g., dress, make-up, jewelry). •Complex and controversial relationship between school dress/grooming codes and constitutional protections related to speech, religion, assembly, and expression.