?A Bachelor of Arts in Criminal Justice from St. Mary?s prepares graduates for a variety of employment opportunities in the private and public sectors. The program aims to develop students? critical thinking, problem solving, communication, and technology skills that will help them excel in the criminal justice field.

Criminal justice professionals and criminologists have assumed a central role in researching, formulating, implementing and evaluating public policy designed to control crime. Crime transcends all geographical, social and economic boundaries, affecting all countries and demographic strata. Controlling crime requires knowledge of individual and social factors that lead to criminal behavior, and strategies and practices to control crime. Criminal justice is the study of the administration, organization, goals, processes, practices, roles, philosophies and histories of organizations created to prevent and control crime and delinquency. These include the police and law enforcement agencies, courts, community-based corrections and correctional institutions.