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degree programs in Criminal Justice
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Executive Director: Dr. James Drylie
B.A. in Criminal Justice Degree Program
Overview
The
mission of the Criminal Justice Program at Kean University is to
prepare students as criminal justice professionals who contribute to
the community, profession, and discipline through research and
administration in the criminal justice system. Students in the program
will develop a broad understanding of the criminal justice system
including the correctional, courts, and juvenile justice systems;
application of the law, and policing. The Criminal Justice Program
maintains a philosophy of education that provides a comprehensive
curriculum and fosters in its students an appreciation and respect for
community, sensitivity for diverse cultures and opinions, and a desire
to pursue graduate study.
The Criminal Justice Major encompasses the entire American criminal
justice system. It has an interdisciplinary curriculum with specialized courses
in the five core areas of criminal justice: criminology, or causes of
crime; law enforcement; criminal law; corrections, both in prisons and
in community programs; and justice administration. Students are
required to have exposure to all of the areas.
All students must take Criminal
Justice in America, Crime and Delinquency, Juvenile Justice,
Correctional Systems, and Constitutional Law. Upper level requirements
offer some choices in law enforcement, community corrections, research
methods, and issues in crime and justice.
Beginning January, 2006, admission into the program and
program continuation require a cumulative Grade Point Average (GPA) of 2.5.
Students must submit a Declaration of Major to Professor Lateano with an
unofficial transcript. Once Professor Lateano signs the form, he will place
the form only in the Department Student Pick Up Box in 305 Willis. The
student must then submit the form to the Registrar’s Office.
Internship Program
Degree Requirements
Required major courses:
Introduction to Pubic Administration
Crime and Delinquency
Criminal Justice in America
Correctional Systems
Juvenile Justice
American Government and Politics
American Judicial Process
Constitutional Law-Criminal Procedures-WE
Police Organization and Administration
Police Role in the Community
Honors Seminar in Criminal Justice
Issues in Criminal Justice
Methods of Social Research or
Scope and Methods of Political Science
Master of Art in Criminal
Justice
Overview
Coordinator: Dr. Venessa
Garcia
305-I Willis Hall
(908)737-4302
vgarcia@kean.edu
The MA in Criminal Justice will be a
general course of study of the various systems within the criminal
justice system, the current theoretical models explaining crime and
delinquency, their practical use in addressing crime and
enforcement, and the use of scientific inquiry to research and
address the theoretical and practical problems facing the criminal
justice system currently and in the future.
The Criminal Justice discipline is relatively new, compared to
psychology, sociology and political science. However, it is a
discipline that is in constant change. The Masters of Arts is
designed to ensure that students keep pace with this changing
environment and are prepared to be productive contributors to the
debate on policy and practice through instruction in the three major
components of the system: police, courts, and corrections.
Preparation to fulfill this challenge also requires students to
learn to be good consumers of information as well as versed in
research and data analysis.
Students will explore differing paradigms that link criminal
justice practices to theoretical explanations of crime including
social, psychological, and behavioral. These explanations will drive
the process of crime and control and system approaches in the coming
decades because of the ever expanding costs to taxpayers at the
expense of other social institutions. The program is designed to
ensure that students can become productive, engaged contributors to
the changing field of criminal justice.
For program description (with
course requirements), requirements and applicant:
http://www.kean.edu/~keangrad
Masters in Public Administration, Option: Criminal Justice
(no longer accepting new applicants)
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