Welcome to the Department of Criminal Justice
We are located on the urban-metropolitan campus of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock at the geographical center of the natural State of Arkansas.
We offer Associate, Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees to prepare graduates for careers in law enforcement, corrections, and other justice fields, including juvenile justice programs and services. We also provide the coursework and mentoring for doctoral students in the Criminal Justice track in the Ph.D. in Public Policy offered by the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville.
Our department is composed of ten faculty members who both, individually and collectively, are committed to excellence in education. That committment targets student education through the use of both traditional classroom teaching techniques and innovative methods of educational outreach through internet based classes, intensive educational experiences, and other alternative teaching formats.
That same commitment extends to public service, both professional and citizen based, with our faculty serving in numerous direct service, advisory capacity and consultant roles to a variety of state and local government agencies, non-profit organizations, and other less formalized citizen-based groups.
The culmination of our commitment to excellence in education can be seen in the research and publication activity of our faculty through centers which focus on Environmental Criminology (neighborhoods and crime), Juvenile Justice, and Senior Justice. We are extremely active in both applied and theoretical research and regularly publish in a variety of mediums. Our research agendas are not solely individually based, we take on a number of collective projects as an academic department during the year which enables us to not only work as a team but involve our students in broad based research efforts of value to their community and discipline.
As you can see, we are a very active department with a commitment to excellence in our discipline as well as education in general. Thanks for visiting our home page, we hope you will visit us often. If you have any questions or anything I can do to assist you, feel free to contact me at MLPARKER@UALR.EDU.
Dr. Mary Parker
Chair of the Department of Criminal Justice