Criminal Justice: The Unethical Cash Cow

[TMW2010]

That's the problem. Most of the undergraduate students are not like you. They don't want to hear about the court cases that affected due process and use of force policies. They don't want to learn about how the Broken Windows Theory has been applied to patrol functions. They want to go to a gun range, drive patrol vehicles, and learn how to whack someone with a baton. Learning about the programs used to rehabilitate offenders and policies created to prevent crime is boring to them.

Yeah, I run into this with my students from different programs (as I teach Gen Ed courses atm). There's plenty of places that offer these kinds of things a la carte, especially those specific practical areas you mentioned. They can learn how to do all that stuff outside of college; but most often, it's not going to apply to a degree, though it might apply to some sort of certification they want or need. But the students are at colleges like the ones that you and I teach at for the education that leads to a degree. They need to suck it up and become interested in the material and see how they can use it to benefit themselves and their career. That is of course, if it does indeed benefit the career, which was the main gist of your first post.