Our Mission

The mission of the department is to provide students with a rich academic framework on which to prepare for professional practice, service, and advancement in the wide-ranging field of criminal justice. Our objectives are straight forward. We work to create an environment that promotes intellectual growth for both faculty and students; to retain a talented, diversified faculty with strong professional commitment; to instill within our students a respect for the rule of law and respect for others that will be a credit to our department and the profession; to use developing technologies to improve and extend access to higher education; and to assess the curriculum and student performance in order to measure the departments success.

Our Distinctions

Criminal justice courses at ECU are taught by a diverse faculty with wide-ranging academic and practical experience in law enforcement, corrections, private security, and governmental affairs.  Our faculty are known and called upon nationally as expert witnesses.  We offer our students the most intensive criminal justice undergraduate internship in the nation. Alumni are employed in nearly every state and federal agency, thus providing students with valuable field placement and job networking opportunities.  We also take pride in our comparative studies course based in Europe.