Degree Specialization inCRIMINAL JUSTICE MANAGEMENT

Join the field of criminal justice management, where you'll protect those around you and help those who’ve failed to comply with the law.

If you know the laws and think you’d enjoy enforcing them — and keeping people and communities safe — a specialization or certificate of completion in criminal justice management may be for you. Through this program, you’ll learn the essential skills needed by professionals in criminal justice organizations, and be ready to enter into the career fields of corrections, criminal justice, and security.

Through this program, you'll gain a working knowledge of the field of criminal justice, think through the ethical issues that criminal justice organizations and personnel deal with, learn about the effective management styles and leadership traits in criminal justice environments, and compare a range of theories on the management of criminal justice teams and organizations.

This program consists of five upper-division online criminal justice management courses for a total of 15 credit hours.

• CRJ330: Research Methods for the Criminal Justice Professional

  In this course, students are introduced to statistical techniques most commonly encountered in the analysis of quantitative data in social and criminal justice fields. Emphasis is placed on descriptive and inferential statistics. The learning experience culminates a comprehensive report of hypothesis testing with secondary data.

• CRJ340: Restorative and Community Based Justice

  In this course, students are introduced to the origins, theories, controversies, and practices, both past and present, of restorative and transformative justice as alternative responses to resolve conflicts. Course material also interrogates the question: “when is it appropriate to forgive rather than to punish?” and examines how restorative justice is employed and practiced to address crime, school discipline, and other types of conflict around the world.

• CRJ440: Ethics for the Criminal Justice Professional

  This course explores the theory, practice, and application of ethics to the field of criminal justice. Students gain a basic understanding of how ethics works with the practice of criminal justice. This course prepares students for further inquiry into ethics by providing a solid foundation of its role in criminal justice policy and practice.

• ORG405: Principles and Practices of Effective Leadership

  This course explores the various aspect of leadership. Students learn concepts such as leadership styles, effective leadership, diversity and best practices for leading change. Additional topics focus on application of effective leadership skills in relation to shaping culture and leading change.

• CRJ460: Managing Criminal Justice Organizations

  This course provides an overview of organizational theory and its applications to criminal justice, a public sector whose ultimate goal is to protect, serve, and deliver a sense of justice. Students will examine the concept of structure and issues associated with it in a democracy and discuss how to organize and manage to meet the public’s expectations within the framework of law and due process. Students will also examine internal groups and their influences on criminal justice organization as well as gain an appreciation of how varied and complex environments make the administration of criminal justice more complex.

You have two options for completing your online criminal justice management program:

A Non-Degree Certificate of Completion

Quickly enhance your resume by gaining knowledge and skills in a specific area that meets your career goals.

If you decide you’re interested in earning your full degree at a later date, the credits you earned in your Certificate of Completion program may count towards your degree!

Call us and learn more about getting started as a non-degree seeking student.

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