Concentrations in:
-General
-Law Enforcement
-Corrections
-Forensic Science

To prepare students to demonstrate knowledge and abilities in criminal justice and juvenile justice processes, law enforcement, law adjudication and corrections. The primary goal of this program is to prepare students to become qualified criminal justice professionals.

B.S. in Criminal Justice Program Outcomes:
1. Demonstrate appropriate knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary for a vital career in criminal justice and related professions.
2. Demonstrate foundational knowledge of criminology, including the causes of crime, typologies, offenders, and victims.
3. Demonstrate appropriate knowledge of criminal justice and juvenile justice processes.
4. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of law enforcement principles including police organization, discretion, subculture, and legal constraints.
5. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of law adjudication including criminal law, prosecution, defense, court procedures, and legal decision-making processes.
6. Demonstrate knowledge of corrections and parole, including incarceration, community-based corrections and treatment of offenders, as well as alternatives to traditional parole.
7. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of techniques, abilities, and limitations in the forensic science laboratory, the field of medicolegal death investigations, forensic psychology and computer crimes and computer forensics.

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AIU has developed a unique assessment process to assess the quality of student work in four major areas throughout our BSCJ program.  Every class has one common assignment that is used to rate each student's abilities in: Law and adjudication, Effective Communication, Critical and Creative Thinking, Information Literacy and Research. These criteria are linked to course, program and institutional level learning outcomes. The data from these assessments are used to gauge the progress of learning within our program.

1. Law and adjudication process: This assessment measures students' ability to demonstrate thorough understanding and application of the laws concerning criminal procedure.

2. Effective Communication: This assessment measures the students' ability to demonstrate application of written or visual skills, organization, style, grammar, mechanics, format, presentation and delivery, where applicable. Language clearly and effectively communicates ideas and content relevant to the assignment and errors in grammar, spelling, and sentence structure are minimal.

3. Critical and Creative thinking: This assessment measures students' ability to analyze assumptions and evaluate evidence as well as ability to use creativity and originality in problem-solving.

4. Information literacy and research: This criterion assesses students' ability to demonstrate outstanding selection and use of high quality, credible, and relevant sources to develop ideas that are appropriate to an assignment. Sources are consistently cited according to required documentation (e.g., APA), with almost no errors.

The results shown below reflect the percentage of students who achieved the level of proficient or more (accomplished and exemplary) in 29 BSCJ classes, involving a total of 269 students in quarter 2 of 2010.

Law and adjudication process: 100%
Effective communication: 95%
Critical and creative thinking: 96%
Information literacy and research: 81%

Not Applicable