The University of Southern Mississippi Department of Criminal Justice has designed a degree curriculum for people who want to be professional criminal bail agents.
Ancillary coursework includes computer science and statistics, Spanish and professional writing.
These, along with general education courses, lead to the bachelor of arts degree in criminal justice. A bail bondsman is someone who guarantees that an arrested individual will appear in court at the appointed time in return for a cash or collateral payment. USM's Department of Criminal Justice also is seeking to become a center of research in the field, Taylor said. Our focus is on designing a degree that meets the needs of those wanting to go into that line of work. We also have established a fund through the USM Foundation that will allow anyone who wants to to contribute money to fund research on the forms of pre-trial release.