Master of Arts - Criminal Justice and Human Security

University of Bridgeport

As crime becomes increasingly transnational, its causes can no longer be viewed solely through the prism of local circumstances. Understanding criminal justice and social conditions on a global scale is now vital to stopping the proliferation of crime and injustice.

University of Bridgeport Master of Arts in Criminal Justice and Human Security degree program is designed to help students attain expertise in the worldwide political, cultural, and socioeconomic conditions that contribute to crime and its attenuation. This program will help students gain insight into the cultural, ethnic, religious and ideological differences often discovered at the root of criminal acts, violence, and terror.

Among some of the in-depth topics covered in this program: domestic, international, and comparative criminal law; transnational crime; cybercrime, and cyberterrorism — all taught by experienced faculty.

Human security, as it relates to modern threats such as terrorism, human trafficking, and ethnocentric violence, will also be explored.

This broader understanding of human rights and its connection to history, global policy, international peace and security, and humanitarian affairs provides a strong foundation on which students will be able to draw correlations and build solutions towards a safer world.