CCJ 1600 - Deviant Behavior

(3 Credit Hours)
(A.A.)

This course discusses these topics: professional behavior and attitudes toward abnormal behavior; theories of normal and abnormal human defense mechanisms and mental disturbances that are confronted by law enforcement; psychopathic behavior with the “normal” criminal; crisis intervention techniques in handling family violence situations; suicidal behavior and forms of suicide; deviant and abnormal sexual behavior, sex crimes and basic theories and philosophies of deviance.

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