The Four-Year Baccalaureate Degree Program In The Criminal Justice System

Job Description/ Job Duties

- enforcing the law

- patrolling neighbourhoods or on traffic duty

- Officers patrol areas on foot, motorcycle, bicycle, or in a police car

- discourage crime through their high visibility

- maintain community relations by speaking with the public

- become familiar with the area where they work and with any problems

- always prepared to respond to calls for service

- any type of situation where people have been injured, the public peace is being disturbed, or a crime has been committed

- have to use their own discretion to quickly take control of the situation

- help crime victims and injured people by administering first aid and calling for any necessary assistance.

- calming people, isolating a crime or

Students will learn to question the assumptions behind both administrative practice and policies that emerge from a variety of sources, and to evaluate them on a range of criteria, including the empirical, theoretical, and ethical bases. This will also include an analysis of the influence of race, class, gender, and other forms of social inequality on the administration of criminal justice. The tools to engage constructively with both state and non-state/community responses to crime will be a theme throughout. This will include analyses of events that initiate the criminal process, the various paths through which the criminal cases proceed, the professional roles and responsibilities of workers within that process, prospects of reform and the policies that provide the professional context in which decisions are

Earnings/ Wages

Most officers begin their career with a probationary work period of approximately 1 year

The salaries received during this time generally range from around $35,000 to $55,000 a year

Full-time police constables who have completed their probationary period can earn anywhere from around $50,000 to $85,000 a year

Some experienced constables working for forces in large cities earn upwards of $85,000 a year

Depending on their responsibilities and the size of the department Supervisors and senior level officers make more than $100,000 a year

Most police officers receive benefits, such as pension plans, health coverage, and sick days. Benefits and salary levels are typically negotiated by police associations or unions on behalf of police forces.

E. Working Conditions funded by governments at the municipal, provincial, and federal level work for police forces of various sizes, ranging from one or two officer forces to those that employ thousands of officers

Police work must be done 24 hours a day, 7 days a week work in densely populated urban areas, remote rural regions, and everywhere

They also spend time in police stations, writing reports and maintaining records that may be needed in order to press charges and prosecute criminals in