Upon completion of the program, students will be able to...
- Demonstrate effective written and interpersonal communication skills
- Demonstrate a high level of inquiry, analytical, and problem-solving skills
- Demonstrate effective quantitative skills
- Demonstrate computer and information literacy
- Demonstrate an understanding of the liberal arts, natural sciences, and social sciences
- Describe leadership theories, management levels, ethics, and professionalism in modern criminal justice entities
- Explain the development of common law, statutory law, and constitutional law and their impact on the criminal justice system
- Analyze the substantive and procedural operations of the criminal justice system
- Analyze the procedures for search and seizure, arrest, and evidence admissibility under the Fourth and Fifth Amendments
- Evaluate the relationship between victims and the criminal justice system
- Explain the principles of criminal responsibility, the requirement of culpable mental states, and the prevailing theories and philosophies for criminal punishment including restitution, retribution, and rehabilitation
- Compare biological, psychological, and sociological theories about the causes of criminal behavior
- Analyze the various methods and theories of policing
- Analyze theories of corrections, rehabilitation, and punishment and how they affect correctional management practices
- Describe the juvenile court process, including the rights of juveniles, detention and its alternatives, and how juveniles are processed in adult criminal court
- Analyze the different types of evidence and the admissibility requirements for each