Criminal Justice and Human Security, M.A.

Carlson Hall, Room 209
Telephone: (203) 576-4869

Program Description

UB’s Master of Arts in Criminal Justice and Human Security degree program is designed to help you attain expertise in the worldwide political, cultural, and socioeconomic condi­tions that contribute to crime and its attenua­tion. Our program will help you gain insight into the cultural, ethnic, religious and ideo­logical differences often discovered at the root of criminal acts, violence, and terror. Among some of the in-depth topics covered in this program: domestic, international, and com­parative criminal law; transnational crime; cybercrime, and cyberterrorism-all taught by experienced faculty from UB’s Department of Criminal Justice and Human Security, within the College of Science and Society. Human se­curity, as it relates to modern threats such as terrorism, human trafficking, and ethno­centric violence, will also be explored. This broader understanding of human rights and its connection to history, global policy, inter­national peace and security, and humanitar­ian affairs provides a strong foundation on which you will be able to draw correlations and build solutions towards a safer world.

Learning Objectives

• Demonstrate the skills necessary to excel in professional careers in federal, state, and international law enforcement agen­cies where intercultural communication skills, foreign language skills, and insights into other cultures are increasingly impor­tant both to address criminal activity and to take needed steps to prevent it
• Demonstrate an understanding of and ap­preciation of the rule of law, law enforce­ment’s role in the securing and protection of civil and human rights, and an un­derstanding of the social conditions and circumstances that foster or discourage criminal behavior
• Demonstrate an understanding of Human Security and its role in the realization of a just and lawful society and the impact that this understanding of security has upon the existing notions of national, regional and international security
• Demonstrate the intercultural literacy skills needed to relate to an increasingly globalized population where norms and values may differ
• Demonstrate an understanding of the role of non-state actors in international crime and justice, in such fields as norm cre­ation, deviance, terrorism, and crime pre­vention
• Demonstrate an understanding of the interpretations of religion, ideology, and culture that contribute to the proliferation and/or the deterrence of violence and crime