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Title: Criminal Justice Concentration


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Criminal JusticeConcentration
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Careers in Criminal Justice
  • Welcome to the Criminal Justice concentration at
    Towson University.
  • We are often asked what kinds of jobs are there
    for students who study in criminal justice.
  • The majority of our students seek employment
    opportunities within criminal justice, either in
    the police, courts, or corrections systems. A
    number of our students are specifically
    interested in law enforcement at the local, state
    or federal level.
  • Recent graduates are working for the Secret
    Service, Capitol Police, Department of Defense,
    Maryland State Police, as well as the Baltimore
    City, Baltimore County, Harford County, and
    Montgomery County Police or Sheriffs offices.
  • Other graduates go on to law school and the study
    of criminal law, graduate school in criminal
    justice or social work, seek wide ranging careers
    in the social services, for example in the area
    of victim advocacy or juvenile justice, or they
    enter into work in the expansive private security
    field.

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Crime and Justice in Focus
  • In our criminal justice concentration, we place
    the issues associated with crime and justice into
    the larger focus of the liberal arts.
  • We introduce students to the areas of social
    control or the response of the state and the
    public to crime, criminology or the nature and
    causes of crime, and various courses of special
    interest. We also require strong preparation in
    both research methods and theories of crime and
    criminality.
  • With the assistance of a departmental major
    advisor, as a criminal justice student, you can
    select from many courses and tailor your course
    choices to reflect your specific career goals and
    interests. In addition to criminal justice
    content courses, students complete other elective
    courses in a variety of disciplines including
    sociology, anthropology, and psychology, among
    others, emphasizing the strong inter-disciplinary
    nature of criminal justice today.

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Criminal Justice Facultyand Courses
  • Completion of the criminal justice concentration
    requires 42-44 units of study or 14 courses.
  • Currently our full-time faculty offer numerous
    substantive courses in criminal law, ethics,
    social deviance, crime and inequality,
    institutional and community corrections,
    delinquency, serious offenders, and various
    courses addressing different forms of violence in
    American society.
  • Our part-time faculty are often practitioners in
    the criminal justice field who offer their
    experiences as part of the learning environment,
    and teach courses such as delinquency and
    juvenile justice, criminal investigation, police
    administration, and related.

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External Learning
  • The criminal justice faculty are committed to
    student participation in the community. We
    encourage engagement through internships and
    service learning courses. Additionally, several
    of our students have taken the opportunity to
    study criminal justice in other countries through
    the Study Abroad program.
  • Often during the winter Minimester, one or two of
    our faculty lead a study abroad experience and
    teach a course in London for credit, called Crime
    and Punishment Cross Nationally.
  • Our criminal justice concentration has an
    internship coordinator to assist students with
    planning and arranging internships. Your
    department advisor can tell you who to contact.
  • Our students have the option of choosing an
    internship from one of our established sites or
    may propose and arrange their own site with the
    approval of the internship coordinator. You must
    be a junior in good standing to participate in an
    internship.

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Strategy for Success
  • In addition to talking with your advisor about
    course selection, it is important to develop a
    strategy for successful employment once you have
    graduated. Your advisor can answer many of your
    questions, but it is also helpful to make use of
    the resources available on campus.
  • The Career Center on campus is available to
    provide you with many different aspects of career
    selection. Visiting the Career Center by the
    beginning of your junior year is recommended.
  • On that note, as this is the Criminal Justice
    Concentration, it is important for each student
    to realize that a career in the field has strict
    selection criteria. Use of controlled dangerous
    substances, prior arrest or conviction, alcohol
    abuse, or even bad credit may prevent you from
    qualifying for many security clearances.

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Criminal Justice Student Knowledge Survey
  • As part of our curriculum assessment process in
    criminal justice, during your final semester of
    study prior to graduation, you will be asked to
    participate in an online Criminal Justice
    Student Knowledge Survey.
  • All students studying in the criminal justice
    concentration must complete the survey to be
    cleared for graduation. The assessment process
    enables us to evaluate what students are taking
    away from the major and how to improve our
    curriculum. Input from our students is
    important. There is no minimum score required
    for graduation, rather simply your participation.

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And finally
  • In concluding your visit to this website today,
    we would like you to complete a short survey
    about your interests related to criminal justice.
  • This survey should be answered, printed, and
    brought along with a copy of your unofficial
    transcript to your first meeting with your major
    advisor.
  • If you are transferring credits to Towson, please
    bring your transfer evaluation form.
  • If there are courses that you believe will
    satisfy our requirements to complete the
    concentration, it would be helpful if you have a
    syllabus and/or course description from the
    course.
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