American Samoa Community College MOODLE
15 Week Session
This course offers an interdisciplinary perspective of crime and criminal behavior in relations to the criminal justice system. Theoretical approaches to explaining crime, criminal statistics, and typologies will be assessed, and the influence of crime theory on public policy will be explored. (Note: 3 lecture credits)
- Teacher: Rosie Ah Chee-Toeava
This course presents the philosophical, historical and cultural role of law as it exists in a complex and modern society. Emphasis is on civil law and its relation to legislative, judicial and administrative agencies. The areas covered are judicial remedies, contracts, torts, property laws, administrative law, employment laws, anti-trust laws, and alternative dispute resolution. This course will strengthen the participants’ powers of legal reasoning and analysis. (Note: 3 lecture credits)
- Teacher: Rosie Ah Chee-Toeava
This course focuses on the victim’s rights, treatment of victims by the criminal justice system and social services agencies, and how society views them. Students will use theories to examine the contributing factors to victimization and its relationship to society. (Note: 3 lecture credits)
- Teacher: Walter Laussen
This course covers the interrelationships and role expectation between the police department, various government agencies, the private sector, and the community in regard to cooperation among these entities and the police. (Note: 3 lecture credits)
- Teacher: Tiana Trepanier
This course focuses on ethics as an element of leadership and professionalism in different agencies in the criminal justice system. Students use social trends and political challenges to analyze and address ethical and social justice that impacts the code of ethics in criminal justice. (Note: 3 lecture credits)
- Teacher: Walter Laussen