The Master of Arts in International Crime and Justice reflects the College’s commitment to the internationalization of criminal justice education and builds on the strengths of our undergraduate degree in international criminal justice by opening the possibility of graduate education in this field. Indeed, this is the first program of this nature in the United States. The MA in International Crime and Justice combines advanced substantive knowledge of international crime challenges and domestic and international responses, with analytic and research techniques in an interdisciplinary framework. It aims to produce graduates with a truly global outlook on criminal justice, a moral commitment to international justice, and professional competence in the increasingly multicultural workforce.
This program may also be completed fully online.
Required Courses
The Master of Arts in International Criminal Justice requires 36 credits consisting of eight required core courses (24 credits) and four electives (12 credits; see the list of courses below).
- ICJ 700 International Crime and Justice Theory
- ICJ 701 Illegal Markets and Economic Justice
- ICJ 702 Comparative CRJ Systems
- ICJ 703 International Criminal Law
- ICJ 704 Crime, Justice and Cultural Struggles
- ICJ 706 Transnational Crime
- ICJ 715 Applied Research Methods in International Crime and Justice
- ICJ 770 Capstone Course in International Crime and Justice
Electives may be selected from the list below or from any of the graduate courses offered at John Jay and CUNY, subject to the approval of the graduate program director.
Students may use their 12 elective credits to complete courses toward the Advanced Certificate in Transnational Organized Crime Studies or Terrorism Studies or take a combination of different electives chosen from the list of approved electives below. Students who have completed 15 credits and have a GPA of 3.5 or above are eligible to take the following electives: Internship (6 credits) and Thesis I/Thesis II (6 credits). The thesis elective is taken over a two semester sequence as ICJ 791 and ICJ 792.
The internship course (ICJ 780) is an online course that is accompanied by a mandatory 280 hours in an internship site. Placements in internship sites are arranged at the initiative of the student in consultation with the Center for Career and Professional Development and the program director. Students interested in the internship elective should start their search for an internship site at least one semester in advance. Students are encouraged to pursue one or more internships during their graduate studies, even if they are not taking the internship elective course, potentially as an Independent Study (3 credits).
Approved Electives
Total Credits Required: 12
ICJ 780 Internship Course
ICJ 791 International Crime and Justice Thesis I
ICJ 792 International Crime and Justice Thesis II
ICJ 705 Human Rights and Counterterrorism
ICJ 720 Crime and Justice in the Balkans
ICJ 721 International Perspectives on Women in Criminal Justice
ICJ 725 Environmental Crime
ICJ 726 Drug Trafficking
ICJ 760/SEC 760 Information Technology and Cybercrime
ICJ 728 History of Genocide
ICJ 729 Organized Crime: An International Perspective
ICJ 730 Human Trafficking
ICJ 735 Gender Justice for Conflict Related Sexual and Gender-Based Violence
ICJ 750 Special Topics in International Crime and Justice
ICJ 755 Terrorism and Transnational Crime
ICJ 762 Corruption and the Global Economy
CRJ 713 White-Collar Crime
CRJ 727/FCM 727 Cybercriminology
CRJ 744 Terrorism and Politics
CRJ 746 Terrorism and Apocalyptic Violence
CRJ 784 Organized Crime
CRJ 789 Violence Across the Globe
PSY 705 Victimology
PSY 729 Terrorism
PSY 746 Empirical Profiling Methods
CRJ 739 Crime Mapping
CRJ 759 Comparative Police Administration
CRJ 797 Homeland Security and International Relations
CRJ 798 Homeland Security and Terrorism
PAD 718 International Public Policy and Administration
PAD 746 Comparative Public Administration
PAD 772 International Inspection and Oversight
HR 701 International Human Rights: Organizations and Institutions
HR 711 Human Rights and Humanitarianism
HR 712 Civil and Political Rights and Civil Liberties
HR 713 Economic, Social and Cultural Rights