• RIT’s criminal justice degree focuses on understanding crime and criminal justice system responses. Students explore contemporary public safety issues, especially those involving technology, and evaluate the intended and unintended consequences.
  • This framework offers opportunities to consider policy responses and engage in hands-on research in local agencies. A focus on theory and social science provides students with the problem-solving skills necessary for addressing today’s most pressing social issues.
  • The criminal justice degree offers students a broad education, preparing them for a wide range of careers in federal and local criminal justice agencies.
  • The major also provides continuing education for professionals already employed in criminal justice positions and offers a strong academic foundation for graduate or law school.
  • The major is unique in its broad core curriculum, the scope of professional course offerings, an intensive field experience where students blend knowledge gained in the classroom with a career-oriented internship, and opportunities for cooperative education.
  • RIT's approach to the study of criminal justice combines theoretical perspectives with practical experience.
  • The emphasis within the areas of crime, criminal behavior, social control mechanisms, administration, planning, and management is on problem-solving techniques based on the growing body of research in the field as well as students' own guided research.