# Criminology - CRIM (CRIM) courses Bakersfield College · 2026-2027 Catalog · 18 courses Source: https://bakersfield.elumenapp.com/catalog/2026-2027-Catalog/criminology-crim "Offered" lists sections in this catalog year's class schedules: Fall 2026, Spring 2027. ### CRIM B1 — Introduction to Criminal Justice - **Units:** 3 - **Hours:** 54 lecture hours - **Advisory:** Eligibility for college-level composition as determined by college assessment or other appropriate method. - **C-ID:** AJ 110, SOC 160 - **Transfers to:** CSU, UC - **Offered:** Fall 2026, 18 sections (/c/bakersfield-college/schedule/fall-2026/crim.md); Spring 2027, 12 sections (/c/bakersfield-college/schedule/spring-2027/crim.md) - Credit - Degree Applicable - Non-repeatable credit - BC General Education Pattern (starting Summer 2025): Area 4: Social and Behavioral Science - CSU General Education Breadth: D Social Sciences - Grading: Pass/No Pass, Letter grade Students will learn the core concepts of the American criminal justice system and its sub-systems. Topics covered include roles and role expectations of criminal justice professionals, theories of crime causation, punishment and rehabilitation, ethics, and multicultural awareness. Students will develop an understanding of the perspectives and research methods of the social and behavioral sciences. Problems and issues in these areas will be examined in their contemporary, historical, and geographical settings. Additional topics include the contributions and perspectives of individuals and groups, including but not limited to diverse genders, sexualities, races, ethnicities, classes, countries, cultures, and societies. ### CRIM B2 — Criminal Law - **Units:** 3 - **Hours:** 54 lecture hours - **Advisory:** Successful completion of ENGLC1000 (formally ENGLB1A) or ENGLC1000E (formally ENGLB1AL) or EMLSB1A or EMLSB1AL. - **C-ID:** AJ 120 - **Transfers to:** CSU, UC - **Offered:** Fall 2026, 8 sections (/c/bakersfield-college/schedule/fall-2026/crim.md); Spring 2027, 7 sections (/c/bakersfield-college/schedule/spring-2027/crim.md) - Credit - Degree Applicable - Non-repeatable credit - BC General Education Pattern (starting Summer 2025): Area 4: Social and Behavioral Science This course offers an analysis of the doctrines of criminal liability in the United States and the classification of crimes against persons, property, morals, and public welfare. Students will learn the classification of crime, the general elements of crime, the definitions of common and statutory law, and the nature of acceptable evidence. Topics include theoretical perspectives on criminal case law, case studies, prosecution and defense decision making, criminal liability, and defenses to crimes. These topics are examined in their contemporary, historical, and geographical settings. Students will gain an understanding and appreciation of the contributions and perspectives of individuals and groups, including but not limited to diverse genders, sexualities, races, ethnicities, classes, countries, cultures, and societies. ### CRIM B3 — Introduction to Evidence - **Units:** 3 - **Hours:** 54 lecture hours - **C-ID:** AJ 124 - **Transfers to:** CSU, UC - **Offered:** Fall 2026, 7 sections (/c/bakersfield-college/schedule/fall-2026/crim.md); Spring 2027, 8 sections (/c/bakersfield-college/schedule/spring-2027/crim.md) - Credit - Degree Applicable - Non-repeatable credit - Grading: Pass/No Pass, Letter grade This course covers the origin, development, philosophy and constitutional basis of evidence; procedural considerations affecting arrest, search and seizure, kinds and degrees of evidence and rules governing admissibility; judicial decisions interpreting individual rights and case studies. In addition, the course covers theoretical, public policy, and comparative perspectives of evidence laws. ### CRIM B4 — Constitutional Criminal Procedure - **Units:** 3 - **Hours:** 54 lecture hours - **C-ID:** AJ 122 - **Transfers to:** CSU, UC - **Offered:** Fall 2026, 6 sections (/c/bakersfield-college/schedule/fall-2026/crim.md); Spring 2027, 3 sections (/c/bakersfield-college/schedule/spring-2027/crim.md) - Credit - Degree Applicable - Non-repeatable credit - Grading: Pass/No Pass, Letter grade In this course, students will learn criminal legal processes from pre-arrest, arrest through trial, sentencing and correctional procedures. Topics include a review of the history of case and common law, legal theories regarding the interpretations of law as reflected in court decisions, a study of case law methodology and case research as the decisions impact upon the procedures of the justice system, and comparative and public policy perspectives on legal rights. ### CRIM B5 — Community Relations - **Units:** 3 - **Hours:** 54 lecture hours - **C-ID:** AJ 160 - **Transfers to:** CSU, UC - **Offered:** Fall 2026, 10 sections (/c/bakersfield-college/schedule/fall-2026/crim.md); Spring 2027, 6 sections (/c/bakersfield-college/schedule/spring-2027/crim.md) - Credit - Degree Applicable - Non-repeatable credit - Intersegmental General Education Transfer Curriculum (IGETC): Area 4 Social and Behavioral Sciences - BC General Education Pattern (starting Summer 2025): Area 4: Social and Behavioral Science - California General Education Transfer Curriculum (Cal-GETC): Area 4: Social and Behavioral Sciences - Grading: Pass/No Pass, Letter grade This course examines the complex, dynamic relationship between communities and the justice system in addressing crime and conflict with an emphasis on the challenges and prospects of administering justice within a diverse multicultural population. Course content includes the evolving nature of multiculturalism, multicultural populations, and managing and policing diverse populations in correctional settings. Topics include theories and perspectives of social science research methods regarding policing and community issues, as well as the impact of policing upon persons and communities of color and other historically marginalized groups and comparisons of justice systems in Western and Non-Western societies. ### CRIM B6 — Introduction to Transformational Policing - **Units:** 3 - **Hours:** 54 lecture hours - **Transfers to:** CSU, UC - **Offered:** Fall 2026, 2 sections (/c/bakersfield-college/schedule/fall-2026/crim.md); Spring 2027, 3 sections (/c/bakersfield-college/schedule/spring-2027/crim.md) - Credit - Degree Applicable - Non-repeatable credit This course examines the historical and recent interactions between American law enforcement and persons and communities of color as well as an examination of the transformation of traditional policing. Topics may include police use of force, Constitutional requirements for law enforcement conduct, a historical analysis of police interactions with communities of color and other traditionally disadvantaged groups in American society, and the theories and practices of bridging the racial divide between law enforcement and the community. ### CRIM B7 — Criminal Profiling of Violent Offenders - **Units:** 3 - **Hours:** 54 lecture hours - **Transfers to:** CSU - **Offered:** Fall 2026, 2 sections (/c/bakersfield-college/schedule/fall-2026/crim.md); Spring 2027, 2 sections (/c/bakersfield-college/schedule/spring-2027/crim.md) - Credit - Degree Applicable - Non-repeatable credit This course offers explanations and predictors for offender behavior in specific types of crimes including classification of offenders, profiling techniques, and the legal aspects of offender behavior. Students will learn the processes for researching criminal behavior. Additional topics include criminological theories for criminal behavior, and the history and development, and future of criminal profiling. ### CRIM B8 — Criminal Investigation - **Units:** 3 - **Hours:** 54 lecture hours - **C-ID:** AJ 140 - **Transfers to:** CSU, UC - **Offered:** Fall 2026, 6 sections (/c/bakersfield-college/schedule/fall-2026/crim.md); Spring 2027, 8 sections (/c/bakersfield-college/schedule/spring-2027/crim.md) - Credit - Degree Applicable - Non-repeatable credit - Grading: Letter grade, Pass/No Pass This course addresses the techniques, procedures, and ethical issues in the investigation of crime, including organization of the investigative process, crime scene searches, interviewing and interrogating, surveillance, source of information, utility of evidence, scientific analysis of evidence and the role of the investigator in the trial process. The course examines investigative procedures and policies from comparative, theoretical, and public policy perspectives. ### CRIM B9 — The Juvenile Justice System - **Units:** 3 - **Hours:** 54 lecture hours - **C-ID:** AJ 220 - **Transfers to:** CSU, UC - **Offered:** Fall 2026, 2 sections (/c/bakersfield-college/schedule/fall-2026/crim.md); Spring 2027, 2 sections (/c/bakersfield-college/schedule/spring-2027/crim.md) - Credit - Degree Applicable - Non-repeatable credit This course will cover techniques of handling juvenile offenders and victims, prevention and suppression of delinquency, diagnosis and referral, and organization of community resources. Students will learn juvenile law and juvenile court procedures, theories that explain delinquent behavior current research prevention of juvenile crime, and historical and comparative perspectives. ### CRIM B10 — Organized Crime - **Units:** 3 - **Hours:** 54 lecture hours - **Transfers to:** CSU - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026, Spring 2027 schedules - Credit - Degree Applicable - Non-repeatable credit Students will learn the interrelations of organized crime to the community; the impact of covert criminal activities upon the social structure; symptoms of organized crime activity, i.e., narcotics and white-collar crime; political influences in the legal system; and management of crime control units. Additional topics include transnational crime and the history and structure of organized crime groups. ### CRIM B12 — Forensic and Scientific Aspects of Evidence - **Units:** 3 - **Hours:** 54 lecture hours - **C-ID:** AJ 150 - **Transfers to:** CSU, UC - **Offered:** Fall 2026, 3 sections (/c/bakersfield-college/schedule/fall-2026/crim.md); Spring 2027, 3 sections (/c/bakersfield-college/schedule/spring-2027/crim.md) - Credit - Degree Applicable - Non-repeatable credit This course provides an introduction to the role of forensics in criminal investigations. It examines the methods utilized in the forensic analysis of crime scenes, pattern evidence, instruments, firearms, questioned documents and controlled substances. The course examines the use of DNA testing, fingerprints, trace evidence comparisons, profiling, lie detectors, other forensic techniques; evaluation, statistical characterization, as well as the legal admissibility of evidence and the regulation of forensic laboratories. ### CRIM B21 — Introduction to Correctional Administration - **Units:** 3 - **Hours:** 54 lecture hours - **C-ID:** AJ 200 - **Transfers to:** CSU, UC - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026, Spring 2027 schedules - Credit - Degree Applicable - Non-repeatable credit Students will learn the components and functions of the American correctional system. Students will examine the historical, theoretical and philosophical explanations of criminal behavior as well as statistics and research findings. The course examines historical and comparative perspectives on the punishment and rehabilitation of convicted law violators. The course also examines the conflicts among the major purposes of sentencing—rehabilitation, deterrence, incapacitation. Students will learn public policy perspectives on the impacts of sentencing as they affect marginalized communities and persons, and public safety. ### CRIM B22 — Institutional Treatment and Supervision of Offenders - **Units:** 3 - **Hours:** 54 lecture hours - **Transfers to:** CSU - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026, Spring 2027 schedules - Credit - Degree Applicable - Non-repeatable credit Students will learn the knowledge and skills required of corrections personnel, including treatment and supervision of offenders, programs, procedures, legal issues, and research in the correctional setting. Additional topics include Crisis Theory and Intervention, ethical dilemmas, and theories of human behavior. ### CRIM B23 — Fundamentals of Interviewing and Counseling - **Units:** 3 - **Hours:** 54 lecture hours - **Transfers to:** CSU - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026, Spring 2027 schedules - Credit - Degree Applicable - Non-repeatable credit Students will learn the basic theories and techniques employed in interviewing and counseling by the correctional worker. Additional topics include the development of meaningful relationships between clients and caseworkers, and the types of counseling employed with a correctional relationship, including group counseling. ### CRIM B24 — Probation, Parole and Community Corrections - **Units:** 3 - **Hours:** 54 lecture hours - **Transfers to:** CSU - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026, Spring 2027 schedules - Credit - Degree Applicable - Non-repeatable credit Students will learn the theories and techniques of probation and parole supervision. Topics include the historical development of probation and parole, recent developments and research, and the future of probation and parole. ### CRIM B48WE — Work Experience Education - **Units:** 1-14 - **Hours:** 54-756 activity hours - **Transfers to:** CSU - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026, Spring 2027 schedules - Credit - Degree Applicable - 1-14 units per semester for a total of 14 units. - Limitation on enrollment: Declared major or occupational goal and evaluation of student's qualifications and objectives. College credit for criminal justice related learning experiences obtained on the job in accordance with a training plan developed cooperatively between the employer, college, and student. One credit hour of community college work shall require a minimum of 54 hours of total student work. Work experience credit may accrue at the rate of 1 to 14 credits per enrollment term for a total of 14 credits. Repetition allowed per Title 5 55253. ### CRIM B50 — Criminal Justice Report Writing - **Units:** 3 - **Hours:** 54 lecture hours - **Offered:** Spring 2027, 1 section (/c/bakersfield-college/schedule/spring-2027/crim.md) - Credit - Degree Applicable - Non-repeatable credit Students will learn the practical aspects of gathering, organizing, and preparing written reports for correctional activities on local, state, and federal levels. Additional topics include the techniques of communicating facts and information, and conveying ideas effectively in a simple, clear, and logical manner for various types of criminal justice system reports, letters, and memos. ### CRIM B60 — Legal Aspects of Corrections - **Units:** 3 - **Hours:** 54 lecture hours - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026, Spring 2027 schedules - Credit - Degree Applicable - Non-repeatable credit Students will learn the legal issues in the corrections environment such as the civil rights of prisoners and the responsibilities and liabilities of corrections officers and administrators. Additional topics include the historical framework, concepts and precedents that guide correctional practice.