Criminal Justice B.S., Rehabilitation and Restoration Concentration

The Rehabilitation and Restoration Concentration is designed to provide Criminal Justice majors with a more in-depth and focused understanding of criminal offenders and correctional approaches that can be taken to reintegrate them as prosocial members of society. This concentration will be particularly relevant to dual Criminal Justice/Psychology majors and Criminal Justice majors with a Psychology minor, but is open to all Criminal Justice students as well.

Requirements for the Criminal Justice Major

The Criminal Justice major consists of 42 credits. All students must complete at least 21 credits of Criminal Justice coursework at Westfield State University. There are six required courses in the major (Major Core) that comprise 18 of the 42 required credits. For students entering Westfield State University in the academic year 2025-26 or later, all Criminal Justice majors must receive a grade of C- or above in all six core classes. Students earning a grade below a C- in any of the six major core classes must retake that class until they earn a grade of C- or above, with a cumulative CJ core GPA of 2.3. Students transferring into the major must complete at least 24 credits at Westfield State with a 2.3 GPA or greater.

Students are not required to take a concentration for the Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice Degree
Students may take only one concentration for the Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice Degree, even if they have completed the coursework for more than one concentration

Major Core Courses

CRJU 0101 - Introduction to Criminal Justice Credits: 3
CRJU 0121 - Theories of Crime Credits: 3
CRJU 0201 - Law Enforcement and Society Credits: 3
CRJU 0202 - Introduction to Corrections Credits: 3
CRJU 0205 - American Judicial System Credits: 3
CRJU 0231 - Research Methods in Criminal Justice Credits: 3
ENGLISH

Criminal Justice Majors must take ENGL 0204 - Composition II: Rhetoric and Research (3 credits), preferably during their Sophomore year.

Requirements for Rehabilitation and Restoration Concentration

UPPER-DIVISION ELECTIVES

Students choose upper-level electives in the major to complete 21 credits for the major, 18 of these upper-division elective credits must be from the courses listed below, to complete the 42-credit requirement. Students may take any other 3 upper-division credit Criminal Justice elective to complete the 21-credit upper-division credit requirement for the major. While encouraged to take Psychology courses, students should take note of prerequisites for each. Psychology courses taken for this Concentration will not apply to the required 39 credits in Criminal Justice required for Criminal Justice majors.

CRJU 0306 - Contemporary Problems in Corrections Credits: 3
CRJU 0312 - Women in the Criminal Justice System Credits: 3
CRJU 0314 - Seminar on Offender Rehabilitation Credits: 3
CRJU 0318 - The Theory and Practice of Mandated Reporting Credits: 3
CRJU 0324 - Restorative Community Justice Credits: 3
CRJU 0327 - Race and Ethnicity in the Criminal Justice System Credits: 3
CRJU 0339 - Probation, Parole, and Community Corrections Credits: 3
Any CRJU Special Topics course with content appropriate to Rehabilitation and Restoration
CRJU 0354 - Evaluating Criminal Offenders Credits: 3
CRJU 0357 - Juveniles and Treatment Credits: 3
CRJU 0358 - Sanctioning Sexual Offenders Credits: 3
CRJU 0362 - Correctional Theory Credits: 3
PSYC 0303 - Abnormal Psychology Credits: 3
PSYC 0305 - Forensic Psychology Credits: 3
PSYC 0322 - Theories of Counseling Credits: 3
PSYC 0362 - Capstone Experience: Substance Use Disorder Diagnosis and Treatment Credits: 3
PSYC 0384 - Capstone Experience: Psychology of Crime Lab Credits: 3
Students may petition the department chair to apply relevant courses from majors other than Criminal Justice and Psychology to be applied to Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice, Rehabilitation and Restoration Concentration.

Additional Graduation Requirements

All students must meet the University Graduation Requirements and complete a general education or common core of studies, distributed among the different academic areas as detailed in General Education: WISE or Common Core .