Criminal Justice Program

Director: Anthony Harris

Office: 524 Thompson

Phone: 545-4075

The Criminal Justice Program is intended for majors or minors interested in working in the criminal justice system. It offers guidance through available offerings in criminology, deviance, and delinquency.

Successful completion of the program's requirements earns the student a formal letter describing the program and attesting to the student's completion of its requirements. Students can expect faculty members teaching in the program to write useful letters of recommendation, since one or more of the courses taken will have had small enrollments.

Students wishing to participate in the Criminal Justice Letter Program should enroll with the undergraduate secretary in room 722 Thompson Hall.

Requirements

103 Social Problems (recommended)

241 Criminology

323 Sociology of Law

342 Deviance and Social Order

Two of the following Criminal Justice electives:

242 Drugs and Society

344 Gender and Crime

345 Gangs and Delinquency

347 Corporate Crime and Deviance

392 Race, Class and Crime

392 Alternate Sanctions in the Criminal Justice System

394 Trends in the Criminal Justice System

395 Criminal Violence in America

397 Special Topics in Crime and Criminal Justice

491 Case Studies in Federal Justice

497 Transnational Organized Crime

591 Analyzing Crime

591 Punishment and Corrections

597 Criminal Justice Capstone Seminar

Two of the following cognate courses: Miscellaneous upper-level Criminal Justice courses as announced

ANTH 205 Inequality and Oppression

ANTH 208 Human Ecology

AFROAM 190G Racism and the American Experience

COMPSCI 102 Computers in Society

ECON 105 Introduction to Political Economy

ECON 121 The International Economy

ECON 144 Political Economy of Racism

HIST 150 Development of American Civilization to 1876

HIST 151 Development of American Civilization since 1876

HIST 332 Crime and Punishment

HIST 369 The U.S. Since Pearl Harbor

HIST 374 U.S. Constitutional History I

HIST 375 U.S. Constitutional History II

JOURN 312 Journalism and Law

LEGAL 250 Introduction to Legal Studies*

LEGAL 275 Interdisciplinary Legal Studies

LEGAL 333 Law and Culture in America

LEGAL 391 Due Process in the Criminal Trial

LEGAL 391 Victims and Offenders in the Legal Process

LEGAL 397 Death Penalty

PHIL 160 Introduction to Ethics

POLSCI 162 Introduction to Constitutional Law

POLSCI 163 Introduction to Civil Liberties

POLSCI 181 Introduction to Public Policy

POLSCI 219 State and Local Government

POLSCI 220 Public Administration

POLSCI 317 Massachusetts Politics

POLSCI 356 International Law

POLSCI 360 Constitutional Law

POLSCI 361 Civil Liberties

POLSCI 363 The Politics of Law*

POLSCI 386 Criminal Justice Policy

PSYCH 355 Psychology of Adolescence

PSYCH 380 Abnormal Psychology

PSYCH 535 Drugs and Behavior

PSYCH 591 Forensic Psychology

WOST 297 Women of Color and the Legal System

Please note: Students may petition for cognates not listed.

* May be substituted for SOCIOL 323 Sociology of Law.