# Administration of Justice (AJ) courses Evergreen Valley College · 2025-2026 Catalog · 16 courses Source: https://catalog.evc.edu/course-descriptions-information/course-descriptions/aj/ "Offered" lists sections in this catalog year's class schedules: Summer 2026. ### AJ 010 — Introduction to Administration Of Justice - **Units:** 3 - **Hours:** Lecture Hours: 3 - **C-ID:** AJ 110 - **Transfers to:** CSU, UC - **Offered:** Summer 2026, 2 sections (/c/evergreen-valley-college/schedule/summer-2026/aj.md) - Repeatable: No - Grading: L - Cal-GETC: 4 District GE: 4 - Advisory Level: Read: 3 Write: 3 Math: None - Degree Applicable: AA/AS Students examine U.S. law enforcement, the courts, and corrections, including history, crime measures, legal praxis, and the role of the justice system in a pluralistic society. The responsibility of criminal justice personnel, the legal process, and the structure and function of law enforcement, the courts, and corrections, with an emphasis on the development of criminal law, crime causation, affirmative defenses, and sentencing and incarceration are examined. ### AJ 011 — Criminal Law - **Units:** 3 - **Hours:** Lecture Hours: 3 - **C-ID:** AJ 120 - **Transfers to:** CSU, UC - **Offered:** Summer 2026, 2 sections (/c/evergreen-valley-college/schedule/summer-2026/aj.md) - Repeatable: No - Grading: L - Cal-GETC: 4 District GE: 4 - Advisory Level: Read: 3 Write: 3 Math: None - Degree Applicable: AA/AS - Credit by Exam: Yes This course analyzes and interprets criminal law in the United States, including the legal framework, the courts, and general elements of crimes against persons, property, and public morals and welfare. The history and structure of law, criminal defenses and culpability, and sentencing structures are examined. Students also analyze Constitutional Law in the context of landmark cases to interpret how precedent has impacted the U.S. justice system, the offender, and society. A field trip may be required. ### AJ 013 — Criminal Procedures - **Units:** 3 - **Hours:** Lecture Hours: 3 - **C-ID:** AJ 122 - **Transfers to:** CSU, UC - **Offered:** not on the Summer 2026 schedule - Repeatable: No - Grading: L - Cal-GETC: 4 District GE: 4 - Advisory Level: Read: 3 Write: 3 Math: None - Degree Applicable: AA/AS Students analyze and interpret legal praxis associated with criminal procedures from pre-arrest to appeal. Constitutional guidelines, interpretation of statutory and case law, legal aspects of evidence, due process, and rules governing arrest and search and seizure are examined. Students also consider institutional responsibilities, processes, and procedures of the U.S. justice system within a multicultural society. ### AJ 014 — Contemporary Police Issues - **Units:** 3 - **Hours:** Lecture Hours: 3 - **Transfers to:** CSU, UC - **Offered:** not on the Summer 2026 schedule - Repeatable: No - Grading: L - Cal-GETC: None District GE: None - Advisory Level: Read: 3 Write: 3 Level: None - Degree Applicable: AA/AS This course examines American law enforcement, including federal, state, and local systems of policing. Police selection, hiring and training standards, job demands, leadership and ethics, contemporary policing strategies, diversity in law enforcement, and the role of discretion are examined. Emphasis on historical perspectives, police-community relations, institutional accountability, and the challenges and trends of administering justice in a pluralistic society are analyzed. ### AJ 015 — Introduction to Criminal Investigation - **Units:** 3 - **Hours:** Lecture Hours: 3 - **C-ID:** AJ 140 - **Transfers to:** CSU - **Offered:** not on the Summer 2026 schedule - Repeatable: No - Grading: L - Cal-GETC: None District GE: None - Advisory Level: Read: 3 Write: 3 Math: None - Degree Applicable: AA/AS Students analyze legal, procedural, and ethical considerations in the investigation of crime, crime scene searches, interview and interrogation, and criminal evidence. Sources of information, crime scene management, Modus Operandi, documentation methods, and investigative techniques and challenges related to person and property crimes are examined. ### AJ 019 — Law Enforcement in Multicultural Communities - **Units:** 3 - **Hours:** Lecture Hours: 3 - **C-ID:** AJ 160 - **Transfers to:** CSU, UC - **Offered:** not on the Summer 2026 schedule - Repeatable: No - Grading: L - Cal-GETC: 4 District GE: 4 - Advisory Level: Read: 3 Write: 3 Math: None - Degree Applicable: AA/AS Students explore the complex and dynamic relationship between people and the U.S. Justice System in addressing crime, conflict, and quality-of-life. Emphasis is placed on the challenges, prospects, and understanding of administering justice within diverse multicultural communities. Consensus and conflicting values between policing and culture, race, religion, socioeconomic, political, and other differences are examined. ### AJ 110 — Drugs and Society - **Units:** 3 - **Hours:** Lecture Hours: 3 - **Transfers to:** CSU, UC - **Offered:** not on the Summer 2026 schedule - Repeatable: No - Grading: L - Cal-GETC: None District GE: None - Advisory Level: Read: 3 Write: 3 Math: None - Degree Applicable: AA/AS Students examine the history, evolution, classification, and physiological effects of psychoactive drugs. Federal and state drug regulations, the drug dilemma, legalization, and strategies related to prevention and reduction are explored. Emphasis on the relationship between drugs and social conditions such as violence, crime, education, poverty, and health are analyzed. ### AJ 111 — Juvenile Law and Procedures - **Units:** 3 - **Hours:** Lecture Hours: 3 - **C-ID:** AJ 220 - **Transfers to:** CSU, UC - **Offered:** not on the Summer 2026 schedule - Repeatable: No - Grading: L - Cal-GETC: None District GE: None - Advisory Level: Read: 3 Write: 3 Math: None - Degree Applicable: AA/AS Students examine the history and legal structure of the U.S. Juvenile Justice System. Theories of juvenile delinquency, the function and jurisdiction of juvenile justice agencies, common juvenile statutes, and juvenile court procedures are explored. Emphasis on the role of law enforcement, probation, schools, resources, and parents/guardians to address juvenile delinquency are considered, as well as the rights of juveniles, constitutional cases, and juvenile victimization. ### AJ 112 — Introduction to Evidence - **Units:** 3 - **Hours:** Lecture Hours: 3 - **C-ID:** AJ 124 - **Transfers to:** CSU - **Offered:** Summer 2026, 1 section (/c/evergreen-valley-college/schedule/summer-2026/aj.md) - Repeatable: No - Grading: L - Cal-GETC: None District GE: None - Advisory Level: Read: 3 Write: 3 Math: None - Degree Applicable: AA/AS This course examines legal and ethical rules governing evidence and its admission and exclusion in the criminal justice process. Emphasis is placed on legal standards, rules of evidence including burden of proof, admissibility, hearsay, relevance, and types of evidence. Judicial considerations, documentary evidence, and issues relating to witness examination, competency, and special privileges are also explored. ### AJ 113 — Crime and Violence in America - **Units:** 3 - **Hours:** Lecture Hours: 3 - **C-ID:** SOCI 160 - **Transfers to:** CSU, UC - **Offered:** not on the Summer 2026 schedule - Repeatable: No - Grading: L - Cal-GETC: 4 District GE: 4 - Advisory Level: Read: 3 Write: 3 Math: None - Degree Applicable: AA/AS This course examines theories and predictors of violence, concepts of victimology, and impacts of violence in the U.S. Familial, non-familial, institutional, workplace, school, and public venue violence from the perspective of offender and victim are explored. Crime data, types of crime, prevention, intervention, and treatment strategies are also examined. ### AJ 115 — Introduction to Forensic Science - **Units:** 3 - **Hours:** Lecture Hours: 3 - **C-ID:** AJ 150 - **Transfers to:** CSU, UC - **Offered:** not on the Summer 2026 schedule - Repeatable: No - Grading: L - Cal-GETC: None District GE: None - Advisory Level: Read: 3 Write: 3 Math: None - Degree Applicable: AA/AS Students explore the role of forensics in criminal investigations, including the fundamentals, concepts, and practices of forensic science to solve crime. Emphasis is placed on organic analysis, inorganic analysis, pattern evidence, instruments, firearms, documents, and real evidence. Students also examine standard techniques used to identify and analyze trace and physical evidence such as biology, genealogy, DNA, fingerprints, hair, fibers, controlled substances, impression, ballistic, and explosives. ### AJ 116 — Introduction to Corrections - **Units:** 3 - **Hours:** Lecture Hours: 3 - **C-ID:** AJ 200 - **Transfers to:** CSU, UC - **Offered:** not on the Summer 2026 schedule - Repeatable: No - Grading: L - Cal-GETC: 4 District GE: 4 - Advisory Level: Read: 3 Write: 3 Math: None - Degree Applicable: AA/AS Students examine the history, theory, and practice of the correctional system in America including adult and juvenile correctional institutions, punishment, and community-based corrections. Emphasis is placed on the correctional process, human rights, constitutional protections, effects of institutionalization, cost, and overcrowding. Ethnicity, gender, and aging populations are also explored. ### AJ 120 — Ethics and Moral Reasoning in Criminal Justice - **Units:** 3 - **Hours:** Lecture Hours: 3 - **C-ID:** LPPS 120 - **Transfers to:** CSU, UC - **Offered:** not on the Summer 2026 schedule - Repeatable: No - Grading: L - Cal-GETC: None District GE: None - Advisory Level: Read: 3 Write: 3 Math: None - Degree Applicable: AA/AS This course examines concepts and theories of ethical practices and strategies, moral reasoning, and models of conduct including procedural justice and how each relates to U.S. public policy, law, and the justice system. Ethical decision making, moral challenges and expectations required by criminal justice professionals, concepts of leadership, and application of ethical and moral choice are explored. ### AJ 123 — Women and Criminal Justice - **Units:** 3 - **Hours:** Lecture Hours: 3 - **Transfers to:** CSU, UC - **Offered:** Summer 2026, 1 section (/c/evergreen-valley-college/schedule/summer-2026/aj.md) - Repeatable: No - Grading: L - Cal-GETC: 4 District GE: 4 - Advisory Level: Read: 3 Write: 3 Math: None - Degree Applicable: AA/AS This course explores the roles of women in the criminal justice system as offenders, victims, and professionals. Theories and studies related to women and violence, employment, victimology, and punishment are also examined. ### AJ 125 — Probation, Parole, and Intermediate Sanctions - **Units:** 3 - **Hours:** Lecture Hours: 3 - **Transfers to:** CSU - **Offered:** not on the Summer 2026 schedule - Repeatable: No - Grading: L - Cal-GETC: None District GE: None - Advisory Level: Read: 3 Write: 3 Math: None - Degree Applicable: AA/AS This course examines the evolution and practice of community-based graduated and intermediate sanctions in corrections, classification and risk, punishment and treatment, cost-effectiveness, and evidence-based methods. Emphasis on social offender populations including mental health needs, sex offenders, gender/gender-identity, and the un-sheltered are considered as well as justice reinvestment, pre-release, supervision, re-entry, and the impact on the community and on victims. ### AJ 139 — Introduction to Public Safety Community Service Officer - **Units:** 3 - **Hours:** Lecture Hours: 3 - **Transfers to:** CSU - **Offered:** not on the Summer 2026 schedule - Repeatable: No - Grading: L - Cal-GETC: None District GE: None - Advisory Level: Read: 3 Write: 3 Math: None - Degree Applicable: AA/AS Examine the role, responsibility, and basic duties of Community Service Officers, including crime reporting, public safety response, criminal investigations, person stops, arrests, and searches and seizures. Cultural and ethical considerations, building community partnerships, and public servants in a diverse community are also explored.