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	Division of Criminal Justice
		The four year Criminal Justice baccalaureate program is designed to provide students with an understanding of the criminal justice process, its agencies, personnel and historical foundations.
		Furnish law enforcement, corrections and court practitioners with knowledge of justice administration, social science perspectives of human behavior, policy analysis and criminal justice theory.
		Prepare criminal justice professionals to respond to emerging trends, assume leadership roles, and have an applied base of knowledge.
	www.uc.edu /criminaljustice (735 words)

	Criminal justice - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Criminal justice is distinct from the field of criminology, which involves the study of crime as a social phenomena, causes of crime, criminal behavior, and other aspects of crime.
		Restorative justice assumes that the victim or their heirs or neighbors can be in some way restored to a condition "just as good as" before the criminal incident.
		The establishment of criminal justice as an academic field during the 1920s is generally credited to Berkeley police chief August Vollmer.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Criminal_justice (914 words)

	SPAUS : Criminal Justice
		An intensive one-semester internship with a criminal justice agency is available for students at the undergraduate and graduate level.
		The Criminal Justice Students Association, open to all students in the University, sponsors on and off campus functions and social activities, publishes a newsletter and operates an employment opportunities file to keep students abreast of local and regional vocational and career opportunities in criminal justice.
		Criminal Justice Administration majors with B.S. degrees typically find employment at entry-level positions in local, state and federal criminal justice agencies or in private business or security positions, or may continue their education in graduate or law school.
	psfa.sdsu.edu /spaus/p_criminal_justice.htm (789 words)

	Criminal Justice
		The primary goal is to provide prospective criminal justice majors with resources and support to help them make an informed decision about pursuing a career in the field of criminal justice.
		In depth exploration of the law of criminal procedure applicable to the "police phase" of the criminal process, based primarily on reading and analysis of Supreme Court opinions establishing the legal rules that govern searches and seizures, arrests, interrogation, identification procedures, investigating grand juries, and entrapment.
		The legal principles governing the post-investigation phase of the criminal justice process: bail, pretrial detention, arraignment, preliminary hearings, guilty pleas, right to counsel, speedy trial, double jeopardy, and the right to trial by jury, including practical impact of these rules on the criminal justice system.
	www.temple.edu /bulletin/ugradbulletin/ucd/ucd_cj.html (2311 words)

	Criminal Justice Degree. Find The School That Is Right For You.
		Criminal Justice Skills: To pursue a career in criminal justice, you must have good writing and presentation skills, a strong sense of ethics, interviewing skills, computer literacy, analytical and research skills, critical thinking skills, patience, the ability to make decisions effectively, and a broad understanding of criminal law and the criminal justice system.
		Examples of criminal justice courses include: introduction to criminal justice, criminology, criminal procedure, introduction to policing, criminal court systems, introduction to corrections, ethics in criminal justice, research methods in criminal justice, cultural diversity in criminal justice, criminal justice administration, criminal justice policy analysis, managing criminal justice personnel, futures of criminal justice, and more.
		Criminal justice work require you to be able to gather this information and reconstruct events.
	www.criminal-justice-degree-info.com (424 words)

	College of Criminal Justice
		The Criminal Justice curriculum which is based on the University’s liberal arts core is designed to prepare students for higher education or entering careers in criminal justice.
		Criminal Justice students will be exposed to the moral and ethical dimensions of the various careers within the discipline and will be charged with the essential aptitudes necessary for their professional conduct.
		CJ 465 Professionalism and Ethics in Criminal Justice.
	www.shsu.edu /catalog/cj.html (3668 words)

	UNO \| School of Criminology and Criminal Justice \| Home
		The School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Nebraska-Omaha invites applications for one tenure track position to begin August 2008.
		Introduction to the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice.
		The UNO School of Criminology and Criminal Justice offers a Bachelor of Science, a Master of Science, a Master of Arts and a Doctorate in Criminal Justice.
	www.unomaha.edu /criminaljustice (390 words)

	USD - Criminal Justice Home
		The University of South Dakota Criminal Justice grads are shaping policy and improving lives, from the forensic officers on the street to Chief of Police offices, from probation/parole to corrections officers and from juvenile treatment counselors to courtroom prosecutors.
		Their understanding of justice issues helps us define and manage the relationships of the individual to the state and to the criminal justice system.
		Criminal Justice is a program within the College of Arts and Sciences, the University's oldest academic unit.
	www.usd.edu /cjus (197 words)

	Criminal Justice Program \| Washington State University Spokane - WSU Spokane (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Criminal Justice program emphasizes a multidisciplinary approach to understanding deviant behavior and crime, the nature of law and social control, the organization and management of criminal justice agencies, and the use of research and evaluation for planned change in criminal justice.
		Criminal Justice is an interdisciplinary field that includes material from sociology, political science, and psychology.
		WSU Criminal Justice program is among the oldest in the country.
	www.spokane.wsu.edu /academic/crim_j/index.asp (432 words)

	Criminal Justice Degrees : Criminal Justice Careers.
		Criminal Justice professionals work in a variety of positions, both in the public eye and behind the scenes.
		Criminal justice is one of America's fastest-growing career fields.
		The Criminal Justice program of study at the ITT Technical Institutes1 teaches fundamentals of the criminal justice system and criminal justice skills.
	www.itt-tech.edu /teach/list/cj.cfm (462 words)

	Criminal Justice Department - Buffalo State College (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Criminal Justice is a multi-disciplinary academic program which examines the characteristics and operations of the criminal justice system and relationships between crime and crime control within the context of a democratic society.
		The program is specifically designed to explore social, cultural, political, and organizational influences on criminal justice policies and operations from both theoretical and real-world perspectives.
		The Criminal Justice Program at Buffalo State is the oldest in Western New York.
	www.buffalostate.edu /depts/criminaljustice (140 words)

	Criminal Justice Online, Criminal Justice Administration Degrees Directory of Schools
		Criminal justice workers play a significant role in today society better training means a better system.
		Criminal justice social workers make recommendations to courts; prepare presentencing assessments; and provide services to prison inmates, parolees, probationers, and their families.
		FMU Online Criminal Justice Master's program provides a broad under standing of the criminal justice system and prepares graduates for career opportunities in probation, corrections, immigration, and case social work.
	www.directoryofschools.com /Criminal-Justice-Degrees.htm (2544 words)

	Links to the world - criminal justice
		Criminal Justice -- Access to several reports from House Research (Minnesota House of Representatives).
		Criminal Justice -- Access many of the Minnesota Office of the Legislative Auditor reports.
		National Archive of Criminal Justice Data -- NACJD facilitates and encourages research in the field of criminal justice through the preservation and sharing of data resources.
	www.leg.state.mn.us /lrl/links/criminal.htm (2061 words)

	The Cybrary's Top 100 Criminal Justice Sites on the Web
		The Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences is an international organization established in 1963 to foster professional and scholarly activities in the field of criminal justice.
		The Department of Justice goal is to enforce the law and defend the interests of the U.S. according to the law, provide Federal leadership in preventing and controlling crime, seek just punishment for those guilty of unlawful behavior.
		The National Institute of Justice is a component of the Office of Justice Programs, which also includes the Bureau of Justice Assistance, Bureau of Justice Statistics, Office of Science and Technology and Sentencing and Adjudication Program.
	talkjustice.com /top100.asp (2540 words)

	Criminal Justice Department
		Criminal Justice is the study of the causes, consequences and control of crime.
		Like other new and developing fields, criminal justice is difficult to define as it draws from a number of different disciplines, including psychology, public administration, philosophy, political science, sociology and law.
		Theoretical scholarship in criminal justice is increasingly concerned with law in relation to delivery of justice and practices of punishment.
	www.fullerton.edu /catalog/academic_departments/crju.asp (1779 words)

	Criminal law - Wex
		Criminal law involves prosecution by the government of a person for an act that has been classified as a crime.
		In a criminal case, the state, through a prosecutor, initiates the suit, while in a civil case the victim brings the suit.
		All statutes describing criminal behavior can be broken down into their various elements.
	www.law.cornell.edu /topics/criminal.html (556 words)

	Indiana University, Criminal Justice Department
		In addition to major components of the criminal justice system and the causes and distribution of crime, faculty conduct research in community justice, dispute settlement, violence, cross-cultural studies, and critical theory.
		The academic backgrounds of the faculty are multidisciplinary and include the fields of anthropology, geography, history, law, political science, psychology, and sociology, as well as criminal justice and criminology.
		The Department of Criminal Justice offers an undergraduate major and minor for the B.A. degree through the College of Arts and Sciences, as well as individualized programs of graduate study leading to the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees.
	www.indiana.edu /~crimjust (220 words)

	Criminal Justice
		This is the major general encyclopedia for the criminal justice field.
		It includes 250 essays on the causes of crime, criminal behavior, crime prevention, institutions of criminal justice, and criminal law.
		The Criminal Justice/Criminology Discussion Group serves as a forum for sharing information, ideas, and news in the fields of criminal justice and criminology librarianship.
	library.albany.edu /subject/criminal.htm (1574 words)

	College of Criminal Justice
		The College of Criminal Justice, one of the largest criminal justice academic programs in the nation, offers a challenging array of degree programs reflecting the wide range of job opportunities in the field of criminal justice.
		The College was established in 1963 by the Texas State Legislature and ranks among the top programs in the nation offering a doctorate degree in criminal justice and is the first in the state to provide a Master of Science in Forensic Science.
		Additionally, undergraduates in criminal justice quickly bond to their surroundings, thanks in part to various undergraduate criminal justice organizations such as Lambda Alpha Epsilon- American criminal justice association, Alpha Phi Sigma- national criminal justice honor society, Society of Forensic Science, Phi Alpha Delta- a pre-law society, and the National Association of Blacks in Criminal Justice.
	www.cjcenter.org /college (255 words)

	Browse Topic: Criminal Justice
		The World Factbook of Criminal Justice Systems..."provides narrative descriptions of the criminal justice systems of 45 countries around the world." Searches are available via Abstracts, New Country Reports and Original Country Reports.
		NCJRS (a collection of clearinghouses operated for the bureaus and offices within the Department of Justice by Aspen Systems) is one of the most extensive sources of information on criminal and juvenile justice in the world.
		The FBI is sworn to uphold the law through the investigation of violations of federal criminal law; to protect the United States from foreign intelligence and terrorist activities; and to provide leadership and law enforcement assistance to federal, state, local, and international agencies.
	www.library.okstate.edu /govdocs/browsetopics/cjustice.html (1280 words)

	CSC - Major Resource Kit - Criminal Justice
		The program is structured around a core of criminal justice courses on such topics as law enforcement, the judicial process, juvenile justice, corrections and criminal law.
		Since any criminal justice system reflects the structure, ideas and concerns of the society within which it operates, the criminal justice curriculum also includes required courses in sociology, political science, psychology, psychology and history.
		Consequently, graduating criminal justice majors will have achieved both the skills and breadth of knowledge expected of well-educated men and women in a complex and pluralistic society.
	www.udel.edu /CSC/cj.html (546 words)

	SAGE Publications - Criminology & Criminal Justice
		The study of criminology and criminal justice has expanded enormously in recent years.
		Linked with this, academic interest in criminal justice policy and practice has grown remarkably in the last decade or so.
		"Internationally, criminal justice is one of the fastest growing areas of social science.
	www.sagepub.com /journal.aspx?pid=257 (356 words)

	Legal Degrees - Find Criminal Justice Degrees and Paralegal Schools in Your Area
		A criminal justice program is the course of study you would pursue as a major or a minor at many colleges, universities, and criminal justice schools across the country.
		The criminal justice program in the US is a broad study of the American legal system, the corrections system, criminology, psychology, political science, sociology, and history.
		As a student in a criminal justice program school, you will have opportunity to study both historic cases and currently evolving ones.
	www.legaldegrees.net (649 words)

	Graduate School Directories - Criminal Justice
		About the field of Criminal Justice: Criminal Justice is a broad field that typically spans the criminal justice system itself as well as Law, Criminology, Public Policy, and related issues.
		Criminal justice can also frequently overlap with fields such as Sociology, Social Work, Population Studies, and Political Science, since those who are trying to run or reform the criminal justice system must understand the causes that feed into the system and the effects that changes to the system will make.
		Studying criminal justice, therefore, can enable students to work in a variety of positions depending on the areas in which they specialize and their particular interests.
	www.gradschools.com /listings/menus/crim_justice_menu.html (253 words)

	Home Office \| Putting victims first
		New Criminal Justice Review calls for changes to ensure that courts and the parole system consider the rights of crime victims and the law-abiding public above all else.
		Pointing to a 'worrying gap' between what the public expects of a criminal justice system and what it sees delivered, the government has released a new Criminal Justice Review that calls for major changes in sentencing and parole guidelines.
		The new Criminal Justice Review calls for the courts and the parole system to address these concerns by putting public safety and the needs of victims at the heart of everything they do.
	www.homeoffice.gov.uk /about-us/news/crime-justice-review (424 words)

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