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The Department of Criminal Justice
Temple first offered a certificate program in police science as early as 1960 and later an associate degree in police science through the Temple University Community College. In 1968, the police science program moved to Temple University's Main campus where the program began to focus more on the criminal justice system - a relatively new concept for the time.
In 1978 the University founded the Department of Criminal Justice. The first chair of the new department was Professor John Goldkamp, who currently serves as department chair. In 1984, the Department of Criminal Justice became a part of the College of Liberal Arts and Temple University authorized the initiation of a Master of Arts degree in Criminal Justice. The next decade would also see the approval of a doctoral degree program.
The department now attracts in excess of 700 majors (not including double majors whose first major is not criminal justice). The department continues to innovate in the area of teaching. For example, the department is the home of the nationally-recognised Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program, and our graduate program has over 40 students across the Masters and PhD programs.
More than half of our full-time faculty have had peer-reviewed research articles published or accepted for publication in the last year. Externally-funded research projects initiated by the faculty since July 1, 2002, have exceeded $6 million. Recent books written by our faculty include texts on GIS and crime mapping (Jerry Ratcliffe), criminal violence (Wayne Welsh), California's incarcerated drug offender population (Kate Auerhahn) and policing illegal drug markets (Jerry Ratcliffe and George Rengert).
We invite you to explore the various aspects of our programs, through the pages of this web site.
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