Criminal Justice
If you are thinking about earning a degree in criminal justice, you are clearly someone who wants to get ahead in your profession as well as prepare for today’s problems. The terrorist threats we all now face present special challenges to law enforcement. It also highlights the essential differences between “security” and “law enforcement”. Most criminal justice degree programs teach you how to identify criminals, track them, take them into custody, and all the while collect information that will stand up in court and bring a conviction. The problem is that this process only begins after a crime has been committed. Security, by contrast, strives to identify threats and disrupt them before they have a chance to occur. Although new legislation is empowering police to do more to prevent terrorism, criminal justice remains an approach with a post-event mindset. If you really want to protect your community from the threat of terrorism, you might consider an alternative line of education.
A degree in intelligence, protection, or counterterrorism can give you powerful tools to prevent and, if necessary, respond to those threats that are uppermost in the public’s consciousness in the post-9/11 world. With this current threat environment, new thinking is needed. Criminal justice will always be a part of the response to any terrorist event, but it is no longer enough. Today’s professionals entrusted with the public’s safety must prevent attacks before they happen, and that requires a completely different set of skills; intelligence gathering, counterintelligence, counterterrorism, counterespionage, surveillance and countersurveillance… skills that very few institutions are qualified to teach at a world-class level.
Henley-Putnam University’s accredited, online bachelors and masters degree programs in Intelligence Management, Management of Personal Protection and Counterterrorism Studies not only give you the tools you need to keep the public safe, they take you to a whole new level of dealing with today’s most salient threats. No Criminal justice degree can teach you what you will learn from us. Your instructors will represent some of the top people from the world’s finest intelligence and security agencies, who have spent their careers dealing with these and other kinds of significant threats. You will learn how to collect, analyze, and act on intelligence from some of the best in the business. And that will give you the edge you need to thrive in your career.
Speak to one of our Admissions Coordinators today at 1-888-852-8746 or complete the form below and we will contact you to take the next step. | 
Join a Network of High Achievers
Henley-Putnam Faculty members are leaders from world renowned strategic security organizations such as:
♦ Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
♦ Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
♦ National Security Agency (NSA)
♦ National Reconnaissance Office (NRO)
♦ US Secret Service
♦ Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) |
| Student Testimonials
“One of the great benefits of this school is that it not only gives you a cutting-edge education, it is a one-stop connection to put students in touch with the people who can help their careers take off.”
- E. Alan Normandy, Lieutenant, City of South San Francisco Police Department |
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