Department of Criminal Justice
Mission

1. Provide a broad academic and multidisciplinary background for majors
2. Prepare students of high character and ethical standards for leadership positions with in employment areas of law enforcement, institutional corrections, probation, parole, private security and the courts.
3. Assist students in gaining employment within the para-legal and criminal law career fields
4. Cultivate in students a realistic awareness of present and historical trends of crime and criminal methodology
5. Stimulate an awareness of deviant and abnormal human behavior of concern to criminal justice practitioners
6. Acquaint students with current literature and research pertaining to the administration of justice.
7. Contributes to the understanding of crime, criminal offenders, and how the justice system administrates criminality
8. Promotes complete understanding of the subsystems of law enforcement, courts, and corrections
9. Promotes complete understanding of the development of more highly educated, humane and effective justice personnel.
10. Introducing students to justice issues, civil values, and understanding the relationship of specific parts of the United States Constitution to individual freedom.
11. Stimulate student curiosity and encourage critical thinking concerning domestic and international justice issues.
12. Foster an understanding of the diverse cultures and individuals that justice practitioners are likely to encounter in he course of their duties.
13. Acquaint students with effective methods of organizing, analyzing, and comprehending justice concepts through continuous classroom oriented writing experiences.