Professors: Bruce
Jacobs, James W. Marquart, John Worrall
Associate Professors: Thomislav
Kovandzic,
Lynne Vieraitis
Assistant Professors: Karen
Hayslett-McCall, Robert Morris, Denise Paquette-Boots
Clinical Assistant Professors: Timothy
Bray, Danielle Lavin-Loucks
The
1.
Deliver high-quality education to a diverse body of graduate students regarding
the etiology, control, and variation of law-breaking across space and time.
2.
Serve local, regional, and national communities through professional
development programs, public policy analyses and evaluation research, program
and policy design, and as a forum for new ideas and approaches to the study of
crime.
3.
Advance the understanding of criminology through a multidisciplinary mix of
theoretical and applied research.
The
Doctor of Philosophy degree in Criminology is an interdisciplinary,
research-oriented program that provides students with a coherent and
intellectually challenging research degree that prepares them for an academic
appointment as a university professor or an administrative appointment with
oversight of research and development within criminal justice
organizations.� Graduates of the Ph.D.
program will be competent to teach and conduct interdisciplinary research at
both graduate and undergraduate levels in aspects of criminology and/or
criminal justice depending on their specific areas of specialty.� They also will be well prepared for
analytical and administrative posts in international and domestic research and
policy institutions and in the private sector.�
The Doctor of Philosophy in Criminology
Program seeks applications from individuals with a baccalaureate, masters of
Art or Masters of Science degree in Criminology, Sociology, or a relevant
discipline.� A GPA of least 3.2 GPA or
better and a minimum combined verbal and quantitative GRE score of 1200 are
required to enter the program.� A score
of at least 4.5 in analytical writing is desirable. Students who marginally
fail these requirements may be admitted at the Graduate Committee�s
discretion.� Students must also submit
all transcripts, three letters of recommendation (preferably academic
references), and a one-page essay describing their background, education, and
professional objectives.� All
applications will be reviewed by the Criminology Graduate Studies
Committee.� For more information about
what should be included in the application package, please visit our web
site.�
Students
who lack the necessary background to start the Program are advised to take
courses that strengthen their preparation, but these courses do not receive
credit towards the Ph.D. Program.
On admission to the Ph.D. in Criminology, a
student must complete a minimum of 90 semester credit hours of graduate
coursework and requirements (including a writing requirement, qualifying exam,
and doctoral dissertation).�
Specifically, students will be required to take graduate classes across
three tiers of course work.� Tier 1, or
the Core Curriculum, involves 36 hours, including 9 hours of research methods
and statistics, 21 hours in various aspects of criminology (i.e., contemporary
criminological theory, pro-seminar in criminology, law and social control), and
six hours of independent research to satisfy a writing requirement.
Upon successful completion of these 36 hours
the students must pass a qualifying examination which tests a student�s
knowledge in key areas of criminology (i.e., historical and contemporary
criminological theory, research methods, policy).� Students who successfully complete the
examination are admitted into candidacy and form a dissertation committee, and
move into Tier 2 graduate coursework, which consists of 18 hours:� 6 hours of Criminology electives (e.g., Victimology,
Communities and Crime) and 12 hours of advanced methods and statistics.� Students, who fail the qualifying examination
or seek to leave the program for some reason, including transfer to another
program, may complete the M.S. degree by writing a thesis or analytical paper.
The remaining 36 credits
(to arrive at U.T.Dallas�s requirement of 90 hours
for the Ph.D.) will consist of (a) 6 hours of a criminology research seminar;
(b) no less than 18 hours of dissertation credit; and (c) up to 12 hours of
electives (which can include courses in other disciplines as well as
independent studies) or 12 more hours of dissertation credit.
Students would be required to defend a
dissertation proposal and complete and defend a dissertation.� Upon Committee approval, the student does
further work on the doctoral dissertation while enrolling continuously for
credit in research seminars and in dissertation.
The dissertation has multiple chapters that
consist of a clear statement of the research problem, the theoretical framework
and research design, the methods of analysis and findings, and an appropriately
development conclusion.
Core Courses in
Criminological Theory and Methodolog������������� 30
Freely chosen electives in Criminology������������������������������������� 12
Elective Credit in EPPS Methods and Statistics���������������������� �� 12
Other Electives in Criminology and EPPS���������������������������������� 12
Dissertation and analytic writing or thesis ��������������������������������� 24-30
Total (Minimum)������������������������������������������������������������������������ 90
CRIM
5310 Research Design I
CRIM 5313 Descriptive and Inferential Statistics
CRIM 5316 Advanced Regression Analysis
CRIM 6300 Proseminar
in Criminology
CRIM 6303 Etiology of Crime and Criminality
CRIM 6305 Law and Social Control
CRIM 6307 Extent of Crime and Measurement Problems in Criminology
CRIM 6311 Crime and Justice Policy
CRIM 6324 Correlates of Crime and Justice
CRIM 6996 Master Thesis Research
CRIM 7300 Advances in Criminology Theory
PSCI 5302 Law and The Policy Process
CRIM 6308 Victimology
CRIM 6309 Communities and Crime
CRIM 6310 Delinquency and Juvenile Justice
CRIM 6311 Crime and Justice Policy
SOC 6312 Social-Economic Theories
CRIM 6313 Corrections
CRIM 6314 Policing
CRIM 6315 Violent Crime
CRIM 6317 Courts
CRIM 6322 Crime Prevention
GISC 6332 GIS Applications in Criminology
CRIM 6340 Qualitative Criminology
CRIM 6346 Qualitative Research Methods
CRIM 6348 Drugs and Crime
POEC 6304 Advanced Analytic Techniques
POEC 6316 Proseminar
in Quantitative Methods
POEC 6318 Structural Equation and Multilevel (Hierarchical) Modeling
POEC 6342 Research Design II
POEC 6344 Categorical and Limited Dependent Variables
PSCI 5360 Data Collection and Analysis in Political and Social Science
PSCI 5362 Multivariate Models for Analyzing Political and Social Science Data
PSCI 5364 Mathematical Models in Political and Social Science
PSCI 5366 Statistics in Law
ECON 5309 Mathematical Economics
ECON 5311 Applied Econometrics
ECON 6309 Econometrics I
ECON 6310 Econometrics II
ECON 6311 Statistics for Economists
ECON 6315 Time Series Econometrics
ECON 6316 Spatial Econometrics
GISC 7361 Spatial Statistics
CRIM 7301 Seminar in Criminology Research
CRIM 7302 Seminar in Criminology Research
Dissertation hours