The criminal justice practitioner deals with the broad areas of law enforcement, courts, and corrections. Professional positions may include police work, juvenile probation or parole work, or counseling and correctional work in institutions, group homes, or halfway houses. Within these broad areas, the practitioner enjoys exciting professional challenges and opportunities for serving society and helping people.

Alumni work in law enforcement, courts, correctional agencies, probation and parole departments, and do so at the local, state, and federal levels. Types of agencies which have employed our graduates include police departments, sheriff's departments, planning agencies, group homes, juvenile courts, family courts, probation and parole departments, juvenile and adult correctional institutions, halfway houses, and crime and delinquency prevention programs.