BA Criminal Justice

Fairleigh Dickinson University - United States

The Criminal Justice curriculum is designed to skillfully integrate theory and academic constructs in direct relationship with the operational realities that influence and shape the ever-changing nature and composite of the United States criminal justice system. The curriculum closely examines: the nature and incidence of crime theories of criminality and punishment the interdependent operation of the various components of the criminal justice system, which comprise police and law enforcement, the courts and adjudication process, and corrections the organizational and personnel management theories relevant to criminal justice management and administration the use and application of the state-of-the art computers and information technologies forensic psychology the forensic sciences the impact of major social problems on crime and the criminal justice system, and the growing implications of cyber-crime, terrorism, and transnational crime.

Maxwell Becton College of Arts and Sciences