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May 08, 2024
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Fitchburg State University 2023-2024 Graduate Catalog
Criminal Justice, M.S. - Community Justice Concentration
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Graduate Program Chair
David Weiss, Ph.D.
Graduate Committee
David Weiss, Ph.D
Randall Grometstein, JD, PhD
Richard Wiebe, JD, PhD
David Weiss, PhD
Eileen Kirk, PhD
Marcel Beausoleil
Community Justice Concentration (30 cr.)
Program Description
This concentration offers a unique approach to criminal justice, proposing that criminal justice activities may be decentralized to involve community in policing, courts, and corrections. It offers students ways to engage community to prevent crime and reduce the harmful consequences of criminal justice-related activities.
Learning Outcomes
Learning outcomes include:
- Describing the concepts and principles of community justice across different aspects of criminal justice, including policing, courts, and corrections
- Critically examining the aims, operation, and outcomes of community justice approaches
- Identifying community partners and stakeholders important to community justice
- Examining examples of community justice approaches both locally and nationally
- Developing a community justice approach to an existing criminal justice practice
- Effectively communicating knowledge and ideas about community justice using a range of writer and data presentation techniques
Plan of Study
Required Courses
CJ 7240 Criminal Justice Process (as required)
CJ 8580 Ethical Issues in Criminal Justice
CJ 7320 Crime Causation
CJ 8100 Program Evaluation
CJ 9680 Cultural Diversity and Communication
Additional Requirements for the Concentration
CJ 7400 Community Justice Approach to Criminal Justice
CJ 8350 Community Reentry and Integration
CJ 7260 Social Relations and the Legal System
Electives
2 or 3 electives
Total 30 Credits
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