Students will develop an understanding of meanings of justice and injustice, both descriptive and normative, and analyze often controversial issues through critical inquiry and social science investigation. Our courses are designed to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of the substantive issues within each of these areas and of the interrelationship and continuity among them. Students accordingly learn about conflict and its negotiation, crime and violence, adolescents and delinquency, punishment and alternatives to punishment, and differential institutional and socioeconomic treatment of populations based on gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity, and social class. Career opportunities in the field. Graduates also become employed in the private sector as paralegals, loss-prevention managers, and research consultants.
Many graduates attend law school and become attorneys.
The heart of any university program is its faculty. The School of Justice Studies boasts a faculty with strong scholarly credentials. They include national and local award recipients in research, teaching, and public service. Faculty are committed to challenging students to develop their own understandings of justice, to analyze critically, and to propose possible solutions to a wide variety of contemporary issues concerning social and economic justice, crime and criminology, and law and society. While completing the Justice Studies curriculum, students will encounter opportunities to develop transferable skills including critical thinking, oral and written discourse, computer literacy, and problem solving.