Criminal Justice: The Unethical Cash Cow

[sanantone]

You all are right that prospective students should do their research. But, I did find it interesting that Texas A&M is limiting the number of students it admits to its popular petroleum engineering program because of the tight job market.

That is interesting. I myself thought there was some application based study involved. So CJ is the study of criminal behavior from a sociological, psychological, philosophical and political point of view, not necessarily crime fighting, but the system as a whole.

Did I get that right for the most part?

CJ is an applied social science. It attempts to apply social science theories to solve real world problems of crime, but this is mostly policy stuff. CJ students typically won't learn things like shooting, handcuffing, and defensive tactics. They won't even learn the state and local laws that are taught in the academy. Of course, with online programs where you have students from all over the country, it wouldn't make sense to do this anyway.