Essentials of Business Security Certificate

PROGRAM OUTLINE

Here's how it works: Your certificate program consists of courses designed to take you step-by-step toward understanding all the essential elements of the code. Your first course will be sent to you as soon as your enrollment has been accepted. Other courses will follow as you complete your exams, so that you will always have study materials to work with.

System Requirements
You will need access to a computer to complete this program. Penn Foster Career School recommends the following as minimum specifications: Pentium® II or better processor, using Microsoft® Windows® XP or later.You will also need to have access to the Internet and Microsoft® Office 2007 to complete portions of this program.

This outline covers all the courses required for your study-at-home certificate program. You complete the following courses in the order indicated:

CJS101 Introduction to Criminal Justice
Examines the purpose and functions of the criminal justice system, with attention paid to the police, courts, and corrections on the local, state, and federal levels; explains the limitations of a system initially designed to respond to the needs of Colonial America; the course focuses on one’s involvement in the criminal justice system, as citizens and as actors, and how that involvement affects the system.

CJS135 Introduction to Private Security
Examines the history and development of private security; reviews the state of private security today, including but not limited to liability and the relationship between public and private security; focuses on issues regarding prevention and loss control; looks at investigation and prosecution; discusses trends in security, including the contemporary development of security systems and approaches toward security in light of recent events.

CJS245 Security and Loss Prevention
Begins with a review of issues involving private security systems and then looks at zones of protection, that theoretical area between private and public security issues; discusses issues involving risk management and loss control, considers principles of crime prevention involving a threat environment; considers issues relating to legal aspects of private security.

CJS125 Criminal Law
The history of criminal law, from the common law (and the principles of applying case law) to its contemporary form; looks at crimes and their underlying elements, teaching what a prosecutor needs to show to secure a conviction; the traditional form of criminal law as well as strict liability and victimless crimes; discusses range of criminal offenses, such as inchoate and property-based crimes, to crimes of violence and administrative crimes, and of the excuses, justifications, and defenses to prosecution of such activities.

CJS255 Computer-Based Crime
Begins with a review of issues involving information, security, and the privacy of information; and proceeds to examine a broadening range of additional criminal threats, based upon actual cases; includes a consideration of cybercrime, systems abuse, and the hacker culture; looks to issues of prevention and information security, with an emphasis on the need to take immediate steps against this likely criminal activity.

CJS225 White Collar Crime
Presents the distinctions between crimes of violence and property-based crimes; specifies what constitutes white collar crime, explores how criminal activity often causes more damage to society than do crimes of violence; looks at the laws involved in prosecuting such crimes as well as considers how to detect and to gather evidence of such crimes; also looks at corporate crime and political crime.

CJS265 Security Management
Examines the range of issues involved in security management, across disciplines and around the world; includes a consideration of industrial security in light of business concerns; examines the context for security and legal aspects of security management and prevention; presents specific security applications and the investigational intelligence gathering used to assess security systems.

We reserve the right to change program content and materials when it becomes necessary.

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If you wish to receive credit for previous course work, contact the school you attended and ask that your official transcripts be forwarded to Penn Foster Career School for evaluation. All previous college work must have been completed with a grade of "C" or better, and as much as 50% of the required credits may be transferred. We will also credit your tuition for all the courses that are acceptable.