MASTER OF SCIENCE, Justice Administration and Crime Management Degree

Designed to help you advance into a leadership role in your criminal justice career, the administration of justice degree helps you develop the skills and knowledge to succeed in federal, state, and local criminal justice operations, focusing on the extent, causes, and control of crime in your community.

As a student in the master’s in criminal justice administration program, you will develop your technical and cognitive writing and communication skills while reflecting on evidence-based research that will give you what it takes to be successful in management positions in your criminal justice administration career. You will reflect upon evidence-based research which is directly relevant to your career, such as topics in:

Criminology and criminal behaviour

Ethical decision making and critical thinking

Criminal justice policy and operations

Criminal investigations and case management

Crime analysis and analysis of forensic data

Organizational efficiency and effectiveness

What You Will Learn

Assess criminological trends throughout various criminal justice professions

Formulate criminological policy obtained through interdisciplinary research

Evaluate the effectiveness of crime analysis and investigation

Judge the value of contemporary and classical theories of criminal behavior

Develop budgets and other planning documents