How inmates cope with the pains of imprisonment?
Ways that adults can respond to child abuse?
How architecture and urban planning affects crime?
How criminal justice works in theory . . .
. . . and in practice?
If so, the Department of Criminal Justice has something for you!
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Criminal Justice studies both the nature, causes, and effects of norm-violating behavior, and the reactions of individuals, groups, and society to such violations. Methods of regulating behavior, such as the formal criminal justice system or less formal practices of dispute management, are studied and evaluated as agents of change which contribute to the development of society.
Criminal justice is multidisciplinary, drawing on broad fields of knowledge, including law, the social and behavioral sciences, the humanities, and the natural sciences. The department offers courses from a wide variety of perspectives, taught by faculty trained in fields as diverse as anthropology, criminology, geography, history, law, political science, psychology, and sociology. A major in criminal justice provides an excellent liberal arts background for a wide variety of career fields, as well as for graduate study, law school, and other professional schools. In addition, many of our graduates have found the program to be a useful, solid foundation for careers in business.
We invite you to explore our program or peruse our Undergraduate Handbook.
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