本课程提供一系列理论，方法和统计学课程。该课程以教职员工的研究实力为基础，提供实质性课程，以解决犯罪的发生率，普遍性和相关性，罪犯和受害者的特征以及在预防犯罪，维持治安，法院和惩戒系统等领域当前策略的有效性（基于机构和社区）。因此，该计划将培训下一代教师，他们将在该州和地区的社区学院和四年制机构以及全国范围内教授犯罪学和刑事司法，并且他们将有能力在美国制定富有成效的研究议程犯罪与正义。我们的毕业生将为国际和国内研究与政策机构的分析和行政领导职位做好充分的准备。因此，该计划将在刑事司法和社区场所培训政策分析
UMass Lowell's doctoral degree in Criminology and Criminal Justice is an interdisciplinary, research-oriented degree designed to provide a theoretically grounded, methodologically sophisticated and statistically rigorous education.This curriculum provides for a sequence of courses in theory, methodology and statistics. The curriculum builds upon faculty research strengths and offers substantive courses which address the incidence, prevalence and correlates of crime, the characteristics of criminals and victims, and the effectiveness of current strategies in the areas of crime prevention, policing, the courts and the corrections system (both institutional and community-based).<br><br>The program will thus train the next generation of faculty who will teach criminology and criminal justice in the state and region's community colleges and four-year institutions, as well as nationally, and who will be well positioned to develop productive research agendas in crime and justice. Our graduates will be well prepared for analytical and administrative leadership posts in international and domestic research and policy institutions. The program will thus train the policy analysts, managers, and administrators in criminal justice and community venues to help prevent crime in the first place, or alternatively, respond effectively to those who violate the law or who come into contact with the justice system.