CRJ 3380 - Executive Protection

Credit Hours: 3

Assassinations and kidnapping of political and corporate leadership has increased significantly in the past century. Terrorists and extremists groups, rogue states, drug cartels, transnational criminal groups, to local criminals and extremists working alone, have found an effective strategy to influence polities and societies. This course will prepare the security and justice studies student to operate and develop security policy in any environment that requires complex coordination and security measures needed to protect executive leadership at all levels, to include their personal and organizational assets, and their families. This course will examine the theories of executive protection (security), analyze assassination and kidnapping case studies on the corporate, national, and international levels, determine security failures that have led to the assassination or kidnapping, and develop security policy to prevent such attacks.