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Sell, Sell, Sell, An Exploratory Analysis of Criminal Justice Education and the Shift to Consumerism

Lanson , Logan J
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1585826005246563

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2020, Master of Science in Criminal Justice (MSCJ), Bowling Green State University, Criminal Justice.
The undergraduate major of criminal justice may be succumbing to effects of student-consumer attitudes, especially considering that criminal justice as an academic study does not currently benefit from the rigors associated with accreditation. Many students are selecting universities with lower costs of attendance and in locations of the country with lower costs of living with the rising costs of higher education. Criminal justice education may also be associated with the CSI-effect. Popular entertainment such as television shows like CSI has shown aspects of the criminal justice system to have more dramatized expectations from the general public. With an expected undergraduate enrollment drop-off by the middle of this decade, it may be likely that criminal justice education is already shifting its curriculum to mirror false expectations of the criminal justice system by way of the CSI-effect. Criminal justice as an academic study can appeal to consumeristic students with consumer-style courses. Although there is some previous research on criminal justice education, studies on the existence of consumerism in criminal justice education are lacking. The current study is an exploratory analysis of the existence of consumer-style courses in criminal justice education and explores 2,957 individual courses from 119 undergraduate degree-earning institutions. Results show that consumer-style courses do exist, but currently in small numbers. More traditional, content based, and standardized courses on the other hand, exist in high numbers, accounting for over half the sample size. Implications for both results are discussed in the manuscript.
Melissa Burek , PhD (Advisor)
John Liederbach, PhD (Committee Member)
Catherine Pape, MSCJ (Committee Member)
63 p.
Criminology
Criminal justice; curriculum; CSI-effect; criminology; student-consumer attitudes; enrollment cliff; enrollment drop-off; standards; accreditation; consumerism

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  • Lanson , L. J. (2020). Sell, Sell, Sell, An Exploratory Analysis of Criminal Justice Education and the Shift to Consumerism [Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1585826005246563

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Lanson , Logan . Sell, Sell, Sell, An Exploratory Analysis of Criminal Justice Education and the Shift to Consumerism . 2020. Bowling Green State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1585826005246563.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Lanson , Logan . "Sell, Sell, Sell, An Exploratory Analysis of Criminal Justice Education and the Shift to Consumerism ." Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1585826005246563

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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