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The Bachelor of Arts in Criminal Justice is offered by the Department of Criminal Justice. The mission of the Criminal Justice program is to foster a comprehensive understanding of the nature of crime and the effectiveness and fairness of society's efforts to prevent and control it. Students engage in a multi-disciplinary approach to the study of crime, offenders and victims, and the agencies, goals, laws, policies and processes of the criminal justice system. The Criminal Justice major emphasizes critical thinking about the kinds of questions and problems that shape developments in research, practice, policy and reform, and the skills utilized by scholars and professionals in the field.

Students majoring in Criminal Justice who pursue the Cybersecurity and Human Behavior certificate are permitted to count up to two Criminal Justice courses towards both programs.

Careers

Majoring in criminal justice helps to prepare students for careers as practitioners, researchers and academics in a variety of public and private sector professions in both adult and juvenile systems of justice, at the federal, state and local levels of government. Graduates obtain positions with?many different public and private criminal justice-related agencies, including local, state and federal?law enforcement; district attorney offices; public defender offices; juvenile and adult probation agencies; city, county and federal courts; crime victims advocacy agencies;?organizations providing rehabilitation and reentry services; and social justice organizations.