The Master of Arts grade inwards Criminal Justice focuses on developing the professional person skills necessary for students to assume leadership positions inside the criminal judge field. The grade program’s interdisciplinary approach provides students alongside academically rigorous, as well as empirically - oriented methodologies as well as builds on the multidisciplinary forcefulness as well as practical sense of the faculty. Students are provided alongside a comprehensive agreement of offense as well as the judge system, administration, as well as populace policy. The curriculum too provides the background as well as educational sense necessary for those who may wishing to subsequently pursue doctoral piece of occupation inwards criminal judge or related fields.
Program Objectives
The MA inwards Criminal Justice capstone seminar selection includes a thesis, or a major query projection or paper. This selection is desirable for those students who wishing to focus on specific bailiwick affair of an interdisciplinary nature or who would similar to hold their instruction at a higher level.
In improver to the institutional as well as grade bird learning upshot objectives, the Master of Criminal Justice too seeks the next specific learning outcomes of its graduates. Graduates inwards this grade computer program volition survive able to produce the following:
- Distinguish betwixt the major systems of Criminal Justice as well as how the functions of police, prosecution, courts, as well as corrections interface.
- Analyze the diverse biological as well as psychological theories as well as philosophies of criminal behaviour every bit they influence modern developments inwards punishment, sentencing, as well as corrections.
- Evaluate the diverse definitions, objectives, as well as issues of novel or emergent criminal threats, such every bit terrorism, as well as how they compare as well as contrast alongside traditional criminal behaviour theories.
- Assess the dominion of law as well as changes to it every bit it pertains to straight as well as indirect influence as well as acquit upon on social reactions to crime, corrections, as well as victims of crime.
- Critically examine landmark criminal judge cases, from the Supreme Court downward to local levels, as well as decide their cultural, social, as well as economical impact.
- Apply the concepts of professional person as well as ethical behaviour inside the criminal judge system.