Criminal Justice, Doctorate

Student Learning Outcomes

• Develop applied decision-making and organizational leadership skills that can be used to address a variety of major contemporary issues in criminal justice.
• Develop cultural competence as applied to community policing and community relations generally.
• Support ethical practices in various criminal justice settings so as to ensure fairness and avoid consequences for organizations.
• Develop training needs assessment tools, the ability to deliver training programs effectively, and the skills to measure outcomes.
• Demonstrate an expert knowledge of the real-world practical aspects of substantive and procedural law relative to problems and issues in criminal justice.
• Apply criminal justice theory to a wide span of issues facing today’s criminal justice leaders.
• Assess critically the needs of the field of corrections and the juvenile justice system so as to ensure justice, minimize recidivism, and rehabilitate offenders and delinquent minors.
• Critique the criminal justice system in order to develop plans that can be implemented with the view toward achieving justice more often.
• Construct and execute criminal justice plans designed to minimize civil liability exposure with a particular emphasis on constitutional policing and corrections.
•  Evaluate and interpret evidence-based data effectively and apply results in unique criminal justice-related situations.
• Appraise and select appropriate technologies for finding, retrieving, and analyzing evidence-based literature for the purpose of utilizing in a wide range of criminal justice settings.
• Prepare various forms of professional memoranda incorporating Bluebook style citations and references for laws and other legal sources.

Admission Requirements

• $50 application fee
• 3.5 GPA
• Official Master’s Transcript
• 2 Letters of Recommendation
• Resume
• Personal Goal Statement
• Writing Sample

Curriculum Requirements

Core

• CRJ 8000 - Leading Criminal Justice Agencies Credit Hours: 3
• CRJ 8010 - Applied Criminal Justice Research Methods Credit Hours: 3
• CRJ 8020 - Criminal Justice Theory Credit Hours: 3
• CRJ 8030 - Improving Juvenile Justice Credit Hours: 3
• CRJ 8040 - Legal Research Methods for CJ Practitioners Credit Hours: 3
• CRJ 8050 - Corrections: Crisis and Management Credit Hours: 3
• CRJ 8060 - Advanced Criminal Law and Procedure Credit Hours: 3
• CRJ 8070 - Special Topics in Doctoral Criminal Justice Studies Credit Hours: 3
• CRJ 8080 - Criminal Justice Training Credit Hours: 3
• CRJ 8090 - Constitutional Policing and Corrections Credit Hours: 3
• CRJ 8100 - Achieving Justice More Often Credit Hours: 3
• CRJ 8110 - 21st Century Policing Credit Hours: 3
• CRJ 9000 - Doctoral Research Portfolio Credit Hours: 6

Total Number of Credits to Complete the Program: 42