?The program serves to educate criminal justice professionals and prepare students for further advanced graduate work, legal studies, and scholarship.

PROGRAM OBJECTIVES:

This program will provide students with the conceptual and research skills needed to undertake advanced analyses of the criminal justice system; serve criminal justice professionals and others who are interested in pursuing professional careers in management and administration; furnish law enforcement, corrections and court practitioners with knowledge of justice administration, theoretical perspectives of human behavior, policy analysis and criminal justice theory; and prepare social scientists to pursue careers in university and research settings.