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Criminal Justice and Security Studies

Criminal Justice Studies

The concentration is composed of an interdisciplinary curriculum comprised of faculty in communication, management information systems, sociology, social work, political science and psychology. Students majoring in criminal justice can construct their major from a broad array of social science courses. The department and program offer numerous opportunities to engage in service learning and participate in our well-developed internship program that offers placements in community, corporate, or justice administration agencies at the local, state or federal level.

Students will learn how laws are debated, created and enforced through criminal justice studies and how laws protect individuals and create an orderly society. You will gain an understanding of deviance, crime and criminality as you study law enforcement, the courts, corrections, social movements and other groups and agencies. By studying crime and the systems of criminal and community justice in-depth, our interdisciplinary program prepares you for a career as a practitioner and scholar within criminal justice and related criminological professions.

Student Spotlight

Victoria Rivera enjoys being a criminal justice studies major at the University of Dayton because of the opportunity to connect with alumni who are working in the criminal justice field. “That is how I actually found out about the internship I’m doing in the summer.”

Student Spotlight

Victoria Rivera enjoys being a criminal justice studies major at the University of Dayton because of the opportunity to connect with alumni who are working in the criminal justice field. “That is how I actually found out about the internship I’m doing in the summer.”

Students individually craft an interdisciplinary set of coursework to gain the knowledge, skills and abilities to pursue graduate work or a variety of justice related careers.

 


Case manager, family intervention specialist, pre-trial services officer, probation officer, juvenile court professional, police officer, state trooper, fish and game officer, fraud investigator, correctional officer, correctional family officer, U.S. Postal Inspector, federal law enforcement, victim’s advocate and other careers related to working with at-risk populations in the nonprofit realm.


Criminal justice, criminology, law school, forensic psychology, political science and social work.