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A liberal education with excellent foundation in criminal justice creates a wide variety of professional career opportunities. These include federal law enforcement agencies, police and sheriffs’ departments, private counseling, probation and parole, and corrections.

The criminal justice major is designed to meet the needs of students considering a career in the criminal justice system, including law enforcement, law and the courts and corrections. It provides the student with an understanding of the criminal justice system and how that system operates within American society. It examines the role that each of the components in the criminal justice system plays, and how those various components relate to each other. The major has an interdisciplinary liberal arts focus, emphasizing social science knowledge as well as basic communication and intellectual skills. It offers a variety of courses that help students understand the structure and philosophy of the American criminal justice system including the dimensions and causes of crime and delinquency, theories of crime prevention and control, the nature and theories of law enforcement, the organization and operation of criminal courts and the philosophies and practices of various correctional institutions and programs, including community based corrections. The sociology program has a cooperative agreement with the Law Enforcement Department at Waukesha County Technical College (WCTC). This agreement gives special consideration to qualified Carroll students who wish to enroll in the Basic Police Recruit Academy at WCTC between their junior and senior years at Carroll.