Criminal Justice Curricula (From Multicultural Perspectives in Criminal Justice and Criminology, P 323-346, 1994, James E. Hendricks and Bryan Byers, eds. - See NCJ-160016)

• NCJ Number: 160027
• Author(s): M P Brown
• Date Published: 1994
• Length: 14 pages
• Sale Source: Charles C. Thomas
• Publication Type: Survey
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

This chapter discusses results of a survey of 214 criminal justice educators, designed to ascertain their attitudes toward multicultural education at the undergraduate level.

Abstract

The results of the survey showed that 96 percent of the respondents were not opposed to including multicultural perspectives in criminal justice curricula. The extent to which multiculturalism permeated course content varied considerably across course type, being much more common, for example, in victimology courses than in research methods courses. Respondents believed that a broader outlook would contribute to a better understanding of crime and to more effective functioning on the part of graduates. Integrated curricula should be developed in tandem with the diversification of faculties, the publication of textbooks which take a multicultural approach, the recruitment of female and minority students, and the establishment of specialty courses as part of the standard criminal justice curriculum. 1 diagram, 5 tables, 2 appendixes, and 36 references