Criminal Justice is an interdisciplinary program that studies institutions and elements of the justice system. This program prepares students for many careers in the professional areas of policy research, intervention and prevention programming, lawmaking, law enforcement, forensics, and corrections as well as preparing students for graduate school.
Career Opportunities
- Criminologist
- School Counselor
- Penologist
- Parole Officer
What to Expect
Hub/Support/Tutoring
HUB
Travel/Global Trips
Sociology trip to Hawaii
Club/Social
- Alpha Kappa Delta
- Alpha Kappa Delta Honor Society
Awards/Honors
- Alpha Phi Sigma
- Alpha Kappa Delta
Service
- The Social Problem class has an embedded service project per semester.
- Capstone class completes a service project per semester.
- Internship/Practicum and Service are embedded in the curriculum
Capstone
The Criminal Justice capstone explores the potentials for and problems of a distinctively Christian practitioner in criminal justice, emphasizing the need to integrate one’s knowledge of criminal justice into his/her own experience of Christian discipleship. It further examines criminal justice as both a calling and a profession, which equips one to effectively serve the mission of the Church and to improve human social conditions.
Home/Location
Students spend most of their time in the Humanities building and on the third floor great room.
Research
- Criminal Justice students are required to present their research at the Ollie J. Lee Symposium.
- Most students in sociology present their research at the annual Southern Sociological Society, the American Criminological Society, and the Southern Criminal Justice Association.
- Students in criminology and juvenile justice complete prevention and intervention grant proposals.
- Students doing criminology/criminal justice research present their findings in brown bag meetings.
Internships/Practicum
- Tennessee Bureau of Investigations
- Homeland Security
- Non-profit social service organizations (i.e. sex trafficking, diversity, prison advocates, domestic violence, immigration, policing and such)
- Churches
- Child Protective Services
- Juvenile Detention Center
- Bradley County Jail
- Adult/juvenile drug court
- Cleveland Police Department
- Bradley Country Sheriff’s Office
- Bradley/Cleveland Urban Planning Office
- The Caring Place
- Counseling Field Experience
- Adult/juvenile drug court
- Ocoee Mosaic Center
- Child Protective Services
- Bradley/Cleveland Urban Planning Office
- Bradley Homeless Shelter
- The Caring Place