项目介绍

2022年9月27日

The Ph.D. in criminology is designed to be a highly interdisciplinary program that prepares students to produce theoretically informed policy relevant empirical scholarship related to issues of crime and justice. After basic coursework in criminological theory, criminal justice policy and practice, as well as empirical methods, Ph.D. students will undertake additional advanced coursework consistent with their research focus. This additional coursework can include courses within criminology, sociology, demography, statistics, law and other fields. Preparation of a dissertation under the guidance and supervision of faculty in the Department will normally be completed within four years. For details on recent graduates of the program, see below. Additional details on individual faculty research interests can be found here. 

PROGRAM FEATURES

• Admission is directly into the Ph.D. program.
• Soon after arriving, each student selects a mentor and with the mentor, the graduate chair and one other member of the graduate group, designs a hand-tailored curriculum. That curriculum will include several “core” courses taken in the first and second year. These include two courses in criminological theory, two courses in criminal justice policy, and two semesters of graduate level statistics. 
• There is a “comprehensive exam” designed by the student, the mentor and at least one other member of the graduate group. The exam can take a variety of forms depending on what seems most appropriate. For example, it could be a traditional written examination, an oral presentation, or one or more review papers meant to synthesize areas in criminology and/or related fields. The paper(s) could draw from the material already covered in coursework and additional readings to broaden and deepen coverage. Ideally, a significant part of this work will serve as a literature review for the dissertation.
• The Ph.D. dissertation can be a single document or a set of several published papers consistent with the rules of the Graduate Division of the School of Arts and Sciences.