康尼斯托加学院

This Bachelor of Community and Criminal Justice is a four-year co-op degree program that emphasizes the importance of individual values, principled leadership, and inter-professional and multi-sector collaboration to address both individual and societal issues related to crime, community safety and community wellbeing.

Our program is anchored to a strong foundation in values, service and action, and draws from a rich network of community and institutional collaborators and partners. Through an intentionally designed learning journey, students are exposed to ideas and they learn skills that will enable them to contribute and adapt to changing needs and demands. Our "ecological" focus on individuals, groups, organizations and society helps students tackle the increasing complexity of the community safety landscape. Our combination of classroom based and work integrated learning forms a "bridge to practice", so students can develop the capabilities that will position them as preferred graduates for the labour market of the next decade.

Program Outcomes

Analyze system, situations and conditions that heighten the risk for people and communities encountering the criminal justice system, with a special emphasis on Indigenous Peoples, to support professional decisions.

Evaluate legislation, as well as various community and criminal justice sectors, for effectiveness in building community safety, and wellbeing

Create and demonstrate interdisciplinary interprofessional intervention strategies that address criminogenic risk factors for community safety and wellbeing

Compare and contrast forms of community development and apply strategies to enhance community well-being.

Analyze key features of Canadian Justice System, and the trends and issues impacting its evolution.

Demonstrate an interdisciplinary understanding of theories related to community and criminal justice from the fields of sociology, psychology, criminology, and law.

Analyze justice practices that emphasize healing, including restorative justice, and Indigenous ways of living to support culturally appropriate policies and practices.

Develop professional practice capacity related to a holistic and compassionate understanding of diversity and complex social issues.

Graduate Opportunities

Graduates will be well prepared for careers as probation and parole officers, police officers, community workers, front-line youth workers, policy analysts and program planners within government. Graduates may also work in crime prevention and response, community building, and within regulatory agencies. Training in criminal justice and human behavior provides meaningful preparation for those seeking positions within other criminal justice fields including institutional corrections and border security. Scholarly and analytical skill development will also provide a strong foundation for those wishing to pursue graduate training in related disciplines.