Chemistry#64;Campbell

Welcome

justice statue

The administration of justice is an endemic and critical issue that confronts any free society. There are continual demands for more and better-trained law enforcement officers, court administrators, and correctional personnel. Our curriculum is designed to provide you with the knowledge you will need to understand the institutions of the criminal justice process — police, courts, corrections — and the administration of justice. You will acquire an understanding of the various components of the formal criminal justice process, endemic and emerging issues in Criminal Justice, and many of the incongruities in the justice system. Additionally, you will be taught how to critically assess some of the major controversial issues in policing, courts, corrections, and administration. You will study criminology, victimology, political policy analysis, research methods and other sociological tools used to measure and understand the etiology of crime, societies’ response to crime, and policy issues in the administration of justice. This curriculum will lead you to reevaluate your views of justice, the criminal justice system and society in general. Noted criminologist James Q. Wilson believes that “It may turn out that a free society cannot really prevent crime. Perhaps its causes are locked so deeply into the human personality, the intimate processes of family life, and the subtlest aspects of popular culture that coping is the best that we can hope for.” Perhaps so, but our goal is to equip and prepare students so that they are on the cutting edge of the developments that have the best chance of “coping” with those challenges.

The Campbell Approach

At Campbell, we balance course instruction between theory and practice. We use a variety of approaches to give you the theoretical and practical framework you need, including labs, field trips, symposiums, and a required internship. A typical major class will have just 20 students; some have as little as 10, so there is an emphasis on careful discussion, analysis, and interaction.