Marketable Skills Report

Applied Arts

Criminal Justice & Criminology

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Major in Criminal Justice

Marketable Skills:

• Ability to identify a given problem, its causes, and possible solutions
• Ability to locate, analyze, and synthesize research/data quickly and apply it to new contexts
• Ability to conduct empirical or theoretical research
• Ability to contribute to a body of knowledge
• Ability to teach/instruct in the discipline
• Ability to work productively and independently
• Ability to apply advanced statistical and methodological tools to conduct empirical research on crime and criminal justice
• Ability to communicate effectively to educate criminal justice professionals and the general public about "best practices" for controlling crime
• Ability to generate theory and research that are useful in addressing public-safety issues