Criminal Justice – General (Online)

This Criminal Justice – General (Online) program from Liberty University can help prepare you for senior leadership roles in criminal justice organizations.

Through this Criminal Justice – General (Online) program from Liberty University you will study how to assess and improve government and law enforcement organizations and master techniques in instruction.

In this program, you’ll be trained by seasoned criminal justice scholars with years of experience. Our professors teach from a Christian worldview, so you can receive biblically-based training that can help you lead effectively and with integrity in your chosen field.

As a criminal justice professional studying at Liberty University, you can gain the knowledge and skills you need to seek promotion to a senior leadership position, enhance your credentials, or teach criminal justice at the undergraduate or graduate level. At Liberty, you’ll learn from a Christian perspective with classes grounded in integrity and taught by men and women who have real-life experience making the tough calls.

Our program’s blend of real-world application and criminal justice theory can help you stand out in your profession and give you an edge. Liberty’s instructors in the Helms School of Government have years of experience in criminal justice and understand the critical issues of the field. You can excel without compromising your principles with the advanced training you can gain through our online PhD in Criminal Justice degree program.

Career opportunities:

With an online doctorate in criminal justice from Liberty, you can be prepared for several different opportunities. Whether you decide to pursue criminal justice administration or teaching at the collegiate level, Liberty’s criminal justice doctoral program is designed to help you succeed. The skills and knowledge gained from the online criminal justice PhD degree may open up opportunities in private or governmental agencies or increase your earning potential.

Some of the positions you could pursue include:

• Criminal justice writer

• Detective/investigator

• Forensics investigator

• Police chief

• Polygraph examiner/operator

• Prison warden

• Professor/instructor

• Public policy advisor

• Researcher

• Sheriff

Courses include:

• Transnational Organized Crime

• Advanced Topics in Terrorism and Intelligence

• Criminal Justice Organizational Conflict

• Stress Management in Criminal Justice