2009-2010 University Catalog
Justice, Law, and Crime Policy, MA
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Banner Code: LA-MA-JLCP
The Justice, Law and Crime Policy (JCLP) MA Program brings cutting edge social science methods to the disciplines of criminology and law and society. Students coming to this program seek to make a difference in the development and evaluation of policy in these fields. The Masters program aims to train individuals seeking to enhance analytical and policy evaluation skills to further career development or prepare for competitive, sought-after positions.
The program draws from a multidisciplinary faculty in the Administration of Justice Program for required core courses and electives. It also makes available a wide range of other electives from many different university programs, including those in computational social science, conflict analysis and resolution, economics, government, law, philosophy, psychology, public administration, sociology, and statistics.
The program takes advantage of the university’s proximity to many justice organizations at the federal, state, and local levels in the capital region. The curriculum is structured to give students the skills to do policy-relevant research and work with justice and security agencies in the region to exercise those skills and serve the needs of those agencies.
This program of study is offered by the Department of Administration of Justice .
For policies governing all graduate degrees, see the Academic Policies chapter of the catalog.
Transfer Credits
Students may request to transfer a maximum of 12 credits for prior graduate course work not resulting in a degree in a relevant area, subject to approval by the graduate director and dean and in accordance with university policies.
Satisfactory Progress
Each new student is assigned a faculty advisor who helps develop a program of study. The advisor and JLCP faculty assess the progress of all students annually. Students who fail to make satisfactory progress may be terminated from the program. Satisfactory progress in the JLCP Program is defined as maintaining a GPA of at least a 3.00 and all course work must result in grades of B- or above. An academic warning will be issued at the first grade below B-, and dismissal will be initiated at the second grade below B-. |