MPA : Criminal Justice Concentration

The Criminal Justice concentration prepares students for managerial, planning, and development careers in the court system, corrections, and law enforcement, as well as positions in local, state, or national government.

The boundaries between public and private sectors within the criminal justice system are becoming increasingly blurred—the criminal justice area of concentration provides a forum to investigate and evaluate the formation of coalitions arising between public policymakers and private entrepreneurs.

Students must select their concentration courses from the following list. Other courses must be approved by their advisor and the department.

• PA 540 Theories of Crime and Public Policy
• PA 541 Deviance and Social Control
• PA 546 Crime and Public Policy
• PA/MAP 543 White Collar and Organizational Crime
• MAP 595 Colloquium in Criminal Justice
• LAW 602 Criminal Procedure
• LAW 626 Jurisprudence
• POL 536 Violent Crime and Political Order
• POL 556 International Law
• POL 571A Constitutional Law: Federalism
• POL 571B Constitutional Law: Civil Liberties
• POL 574 Administrative Law
• POL 576 Women and the Law
    

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