Protecting lives. Protecting data. Protecting identities. As crimes evolve, so does the Strayer criminal justice program, providing you with the most current methods for uncovering and preventing crimes, in person, on paper, and online.
When you get your criminal justice degree online, you can enhance it with classes in areas like accounting (to track financial fraud), health services (to protect sensitive medical information) or information systems (to focus on cybercrime). You'll get a strong and tailored skill set, which can help make you a leader in the criminal justice field.
Faleshia, a single mother currently enrolled at Strayer University, sees the Criminal Justice program as a way to build a career — and her community.
“I want to get a degree in criminology. I see myself as a probations officer, giving second chances. I would love to help people get out of trouble. Everybody needs somebody they can come to, and I’m definitely that person.”
We make more than 200 updates each year to our criminal justice courses. Take the up-to-the-minute information you learn when you get your Strayer criminal justice degree online and apply it immediately to your current job, while also gaining:
More opportunities to analyze and interpret information, taking your knowledge beyond theory
Hands-on experience with written and oral communication for a variety of reports, research, and public information tasks
An understanding of crime mapping, to be able to forecast and prevent crimes before they happen
The chance to study criminal behavior to understand the motivations and predict the moves of hackers, terrorists, organized crime syndicates and more
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Explore the range of criminal justice programs we have online, to help you start a criminal justice career or advance the career you’re in.
Crime has changed. It has no borders. It threatens to enter every part of our lives. So crime prevention and criminal investigation have changed, t...
Strayer University’s Criminal Justice program merges criminology theory with skills and techniques that are used in today’s criminal justice system, like forensics, behavioral analysis, and crime mapping.
Our students analyze relationships between all branches of the criminal justice system — from local and state police, to courts and corrections, and even the Department of Homeland Security — and explore specialty fields like fraud detection and juvenile crime.
Develop the communication, problem-solving, and critical-thinking skills you need to detect and prevent criminal behavior. Earn your criminal justice degree online from Strayer.