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Two-year Distance Learning Program for Working Professionals One-year Full-time Distance Learning Program
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Program Overview
TWO PROGRAMS PROVIDE REAL EDUCATION FOR THE REAL WORLD
Intended to meet the needs of today's working criminal justice professional, the University of Cincinnati Master of Science in Criminal Justice two-year online program offers you the benefit of a strong academic program with the convenience and flexibility of distance learning. Designed for your busy lifestyle, you can complete this program online while continuing to take care of your work, family and personal responsibilities. The University of Cincinnati also offers an accelerated program that can be completed in just one year with full-time study. This program is ideal for individuals who are not working fulltime and are able to dedicate the necessary hours to their studies. Both program options provide an extraordinary opportunity for you to further your education and your career. Save with affordable tuition. Complete your Master's degree without any need to go to the UC campus. Enhance your career as a criminal justice professional with an applied knowledge base that prepares you to assume leadership roles and address emerging trends. Learn real-world solutions from distinguished faculty who have a strong commitment to your success and real-world criminal justice leadership experience. Interact with a learning community of your peers, support of a professional facilitator and instruction from a University faculty member. Attend a program whose faculty has been nationally ranked number one in research publications (Journal of Criminal Justice). Receive the prestigious Master of Science in Criminal Justice from the University of Cincinnati, an accredited Research Extensive institution, in as little as 1 year.
Unprecedented Support
As part of this program, you will have 7 levels of unprecedented academic, technical and administrative support from your 1. Instructor, 2. Facilitator, 3. Peers, 4. Enrollment Advisor, 5. Program Manager, 6. Helpdesk and 7. Online Library. You can focus on learning and use technology to leverage your career. All you need is the desire, a computer, and a high speed Internet connection. We'll show you how! You can take your place as a leader in our complex and challenging criminal justice system. Give us a call at 1-800-645-5078 now and broaden your professional knowledge and competencies in criminal justice research, theory, administration, and practice. Our Enrollment Advisors are prepared to answer your questions and guide you through the application process.
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Application Process
When you are accepted as a graduate student in UC's Master of Criminal Justice program you can count on an education from a top ranked, accredited program. Our comprehensive admissions standards, including GRE scores, are viewed as a factor among many organizations in evaluating the strength of a graduate program or institution (for example, U.S. News & World Report). Other factors in UC achieving high rankings include its outstanding faculty, research, updated curriculum, program accreditations and competitive tuition. Check out UC, and make your educational experience, your degree, and your opportunities the best they can be by attending a prestigious university, the University of Cincinnati.
Admissions:
Applications for admission are accepted 4 times a year. Applicants will be reviewed for admission, based upon the following criteria: Applicants must hold a Bachelor's degree from a regionally accredited institution and meet one of the following five criteria: 1. 3.0 GPA (4.0 scale) in the last two years of college work (60 semester hours/90 quarter hours) 2. 2.75 GPA in all college work 3. 2.5 GPA in the last two years of college (60 semester hours/90 quarter hours) and five years of work experience in criminal justice 4. 3.25 GPA in 9 hours of graduate credit from a regionally accredited university and five years work experience in criminal justice 5. A combined score of 1000 on the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) Applicants must take the GRE or submit their scores from a GRE taken within the last five years. Applicants who meet any one of the above criteria may be conditionally accepted to the program, but they must take the GRE within six months. Applicants must complete the online UC graduate school application. Applicants must submit official university transcripts from all undergraduate and graduate work. International applicants must have a minimum TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) score of 550 (paper version) or 190 (electronic version).
Course of Study
The two-year working professionals program and one-year full-time program use the same curriculum. Two-year students take two courses per term; one year students take four courses per term.
SEMINAR IN CRIMINOLOGY
Learn about the nature of crime in American society at both the micro-level (why individuals commit crime) and the macro-level (why crime rates vary across communities).
I have truly enjoyed the Distance Learning program that UC offers. The classes have been very interesting. I can still work 40 hours a week and obtain my Master's Degree. Brooke N. Myers Probation Officer - TCEDC Class of 2003
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SEMINAR IN CORRECTIONAL REHABILITATION Theories, techniques, and policies of correctional treatment from applied, planning, and evaluation perspectives. SEMINAR IN COMMUNITY CORRECTIONS Provides an overview of the origins, nature, and effectiveness of various criminal justice programs found under the term community corrections. SEMINAR IN CRIME & THE LIFE COURSE
Provides a dynamic understanding and theoretical guide to the study of crime and offending.
This program is great. I just completed my first course and was very impressed. As an educator and full-time prosecuting attorney, I feel this program fills a great void and I would highly recommend it. This is a winner for sure! Darrell Hawkins Attorney Class of 2006
Distance Learning
EDUCATION THAT FITS YOUR LIFESTYLE
Courses are designed to provide you with the instruction and support necessary to succeed. For each course, you will be assigned to a small learning group led by a facilitator who works with the University Instructor to provide support to you and other members of the group. All courses in this program are taught by University of Cincinnati faculty in the Division of Criminal Justice. The University of Cincinnati has extensive experience in the design and delivery of online programs. The Criminal Justice program uses a multifaceted approach that delivers course content through a combination of multimedia presentations, readings, discussion sessions, online assignments, and peer and professional support systems. This means that you are never limited to one learning method.
Learn at Home. All course materials are available via the Internet
or delivered to your home anytime, anywhere.
Learn Online. Through our course Web site and world-class online library, you have access to discussion forums, class e-mail, assignments, exams, course schedules prepared by your course instructor, and research resources. Learn Together. You will work within a small group led by a professional facilitator who provides academic guidance and preparation. Fellow students provide invaluable support through interactive learning sessions. Learn through Workplace Applications. Working criminal justice professionals have many opportunities to practice their new knowledge and competencies in their own work settings. Your workplace will serve as a resource for assignments involving case study, policy analysis, and research.
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Program Structure
DESIGNED FOR SUCCESS DESIGNED FOR YOU
Our unique method of distance learning allows you to take advantage of the best of traditional higher education, training, and online instruction for a learning experience rich in content, interaction, and application. Learner-centered and results-driven, the system blends different learning environments and delivery methods that maximize student time and involvement.
MITCHELL B. CHAMLIN
PROFESSOR
Professor Chamlin received his Ph.D. in Sociology from SUNY-Albany in 1985. He served eight years on the faculty of the Department of Sociology at the University of Oklahoma immediately prior to coming to UC in 1993. There, he codirected the primary research project that led to Oklahoma's new "Truth in Sentencing" Act. Drawing primarily on insights garnered from rational-choice and conflict theories, he has examined the determinants of police force size, welfare expenditures, arrest rates, and violent acts against the police. He has published approximately 40 articles in journals including Criminology, Justice Quarterly and The Journal of Quantitative Criminology. His graduate teaching includes research methods, the nature of crime, and longitudinal data analysis.
FRANCIS T. CULLEN
DISTINGUISHED RESEARCH PROFESSOR DIRECTOR OF DISTANCE LEARNING
Professor Cullen received his Ph.D. in sociology and education from Columbia University in 1979. He is past editor of Justice Quarterly and Journal of Crime and Justice, and was president of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. He is a fellow of both the ACJS and the American Society of Criminology. He is author of Rethinking Crime and Deviance Theory and is co-author of Reaffirming Rehabilitation, Corporate Crime Under Attack: The Ford Pinto Case and Beyond, Criminological Theory: Context and Consequences, Criminology, and Combating Corporate Crime: Local Prosecutors at Work. He is co-editor of Contemporary Criminological Theory, Offender Rehabilitation: Effective Correctional Intervention, and Criminological Theory: Past to Present - Essential Readings. He teaches theory and philosophy of corrections, structural theories of crime, early intervention in criminal justice, and criminal justice research practicum.
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PROFESSOR
I have found this program to be very rewarding. The program allows me to set my hours of instruction and my classroom can be any computer with Internet access. It totally fits my busy schedule.
Gary Chester Graduate CJ Masters Program (Class of 2003)
JOHN E. ECK
BONNIE S. FISHER
PROFESSOR
Professor Fisher received her Ph.D. in political science from Northwestern University in 1988. She served three years on the faculty of the department of city and regional planning at the Ohio State University before joining the faculty at UC in 1991. Dr. Fisher was the principal investigator for four federally funded research projects involving the victimization of college students, the sexual victimization of college women, violence against college women, and campus-level responses to a report of sexual assault. Her research interests include issues concerning crimes against and within small businesses, fear of crime, crime prevention and security, and the measurement of victimization and attitudes. She has published in Criminology, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Research in Crime and Delinquency, Violence and Victims, and Crime and Delinquency. Dr. Fisher is the co-editor of the Security Journal.
Professor Eck is a 1994 Ph.D. in criminology from the University of Maryland. He has conducted research in police operations since 1977, and served as the Research Director for the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF). At PERF, he spearheaded the development of problem-oriented policing throughout the U.S. He was also the Evaluation Coordinator for Law Enforcement at the Washington/Baltimore High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area, and a consultant to the London Metropolitan Police, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Police Foundation, and other organizations. Dr. Eck has written on criminal investigations, drug markets and control, crime mapping, and crime places. Research interests are the concentration of crime at places and prevention, crime displacement, criminal investigations, and the investigation of police misconduct. He is a member of the National Academy of Science panel assessing police research and policy. He teaches police effectiveness, research methods, and policy analysis.
ROBIN ENGEL
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Dr. Engel received her doctorate in criminal justice from the University at Albany in 1999 and was previously an Assistant Professor of Crime, Law & Justice at The Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Engel has worked extensively with patrol officers and first-line supervisors as part of a systematic observational study of police decision-making. She has written four reports for the National Institute of Justice on this topic. In addition, she has published several peer-reviewed articles regarding the behavior of patrol officers and first-line supervisors working in police departments that have engaged in community policing initiatives. Dr. Engel's current research involves theoretical and empirical explorations of police supervision, patrol officers' behavior, police response toward problem citizens, and racial profiling. Her recent scholarly work has appeared in peer-reviewed journals, including Criminology, Justice Quarterly, Crime and Delinquency, and the Journal of Criminal Justice. She is currently the Principal Investigator of a project collecting and analyzing police-citizen contacts during traffic stops in the state of Pennsylvania.
CHRISTOPHER T. LOWENKAMP
ASSISTANT RESEARCH PROFESSOR
Christopher T. Lowenkamp received his doctorate in criminal justice from the University of Cincinnati. He is currently an assistant research professor at the University of Cincinnati, Division of Criminal Justice and the director of The Center for Criminal Justice Research. Prior to his appointment at the University, Christopher was an adult probation officer and the emergency jail release coordinator in Akron, Ohio. Over the past several years, he has provided consultation and research services to multiple agencies and jurisdictions in over twentyfive states. Christopher's research interests in risk and need assessment, the evaluation of correctional interventions, and criminological theory have led to publications in some of the field's top journals. Recent research projects have included evaluations of community based correctional facilities, halfway house programs, and intensive supervision probation in Ohio.
OJMARRH MITCHELL
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Professor Mitchell earned his Ph.D. in criminal justice and criminology from the University of Maryland with a doctoral minor in measurement, statistics, and evaluation. Previously, Dr. Mitchell held positions at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and the Urban Institute. His research interests include deviant self-identify, evaluation of correctional programs, race and sentencing, drugs and crime, measurement theory, and meta-analysis. His past research includes the National Evaluation of the Breaking the Cycle Demonstration Project and the National Evaluation of Juvenile Correctional Facilities. Currently, he is engaged in an experimental evaluation of the Maryland Correctional Boot Camp, and he is involved with the Campbell Collaboration in assessing the effectiveness of drug courts and prison-based drug treatment in reducing recidivism. He teaches in the areas of corrections and criminal justice.
EDWARD J. LATESSA
PROFESSOR DIVISION HEAD
Professor Latessa received his Ph.D. in 1979 from Ohio State University, and has been on the faculty at UC since 1980. Dr. Latessa has published over 110 works in the area of criminal justice, corrections, and juvenile justice. He is co-author of seven books including Corrections in the Community, which is now in its fourth edition, and the 11th edition of Corrections in America. Professor Latessa has directed over 60 funded research projects including, studies of day reporting centers, juvenile justice programs, drug courts, intensive supervision programs, halfway houses, and drug programs. He and his staff have also assessed over 350 correctional programs throughout the United States. Dr. Latessa is a consultant with the National Institute of Corrections, and he has provided assistance and workshops in over forty states. Dr. Latessa served as President of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (1989-90). He has also received several awards including; the August Vollmer Award from the American Society of Criminology (2004), the Simon Dinitz Criminal Justice Research Award from the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (2002), the Margaret Mead Award for dedicated service to the causes of social justice and humanitarian advancement by the International Community Corrections Association (2001), the Peter P. Lejins Award for Research from the American Correctional Association (1999); ACJS Fellow Award (1998); ACJS Founders Award (1992); and the Simon Dinitz award by the Ohio Community Corrections Organization. Professor Latessa teaches Corrections in the Community.
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PAULA SMITH
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Paula Smith undertook her doctoral work at the University of New Brunswick. She was previously a Research Associate with the Centre for Criminal Justice Studies at the University of New Brunswick. She has also been involved in the development and delivery of treatment programs to federal parolees with the Correctional Service of Canada. Her research interests include meta-analysis, the assessment of offender treatment and deterrence programs, the development of actuarial assessments for clinicians and managers in prisons and community corrections, the effects of prison life, treatment responsivity, and the transfer of knowledge to practitioners and policy makers. She has co-authored several articles, book chapters, and conference presentations on the above topics. She teaches meta analysis and the psychology of criminal behavior.
PAMELA WILCOX
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Pamela Wilcox received her Ph.D. in Sociology at Duke University in 1994. She was on the faculty in Sociology at the University of Kentucky from 1994-2004. Her research focuses on multi-level crime control, with special interest in integrating components of routine activities theory and social disorganization theory in order to understand crime and victimization risk within school and community contexts. She recently co-authored Criminal Circumstance: A Dynamic Multicontextual Criminal Opportunity Theory. Recent articles have appeared in The Sociological Quarterly, Criminology, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, Justice Quarterly, Criminal Justice, Violence and Victims, and Journal of School Violence. She serves as co-investigator on the Rural Substance Abuse and Violence Project, a four-year longitudinal study of trajectories of drug use and school-based offending/ victimization among a panel of Kentucky youth. She is also coinvestigator on a cross-sectional study of women's experiences with sexual, physical and stalking victimization at the University of Kentucky.
COMPUTER REQUIREMENTS
A computer system is necessary to participate in the online MS Criminal Justice Program. As technology is constantly advancing, its best to contact an Enrollment Advisor directly to discuss current program requirements for hardware or software that may be required for your classes. Please call an Enrollment Advisor for the most up-to-date information including special pricing that the University of Cincinnati has negotiated.