Requirements include planning and evaluating programs that encourage pro-social behavior in convicted offenders serving within correctional institutions. This course allows students to gain valuable, direct experience in organizations as interns. Students complete the assignment under the supervision of a faculty coordinator. The graduate program in criminal justice receives its strength and depth from participating faculty who are active in the discipline and recognized for their scholarship and expertise locally, nationally, and internationally. Students have access to faculty resources in regularly offered courses, for supervised field experiences or special projects, and to support their research endeavors.
Faculty members engage in applied research, consulting, and public service.
They have received grant awards to provide alcohol and drug abuse education and counseling for college students, to develop drug and AIDS education for prison inmates, and to help inmates adjust to family life upon release from prison. Participating faculty members also engage in consulting activities and community service endeavors on regional, national, and international levels. One member has worked as a consultant for the U.S. Bureau of Prisons, North Carolina Department of Corrections, and Connecticut Department of Correction. Another has consulted on high risk youth delinquency prevention programs for the state of Maryland and has served as managing editor of the journal Criminology . Others have directed programs at police training academies and colleges or universities, as well as for companies or corporations in the private sector at home and abroad.