CNA Staff, Mar 7, 2024 / 12:10 pm
A newly launched master’s degree program in criminal justice at Franciscan University of Steubenville is “unapologetically and unreservedly rooted in the Catholic tradition,” the program’s director says, offering an “utterly unique” approach to criminal study that includes natural law and Catholic philosophy.
The Catholic school, founded in 1946 in Steubenville, Ohio, announced the launch of the program in a press release last month, stating that along with the university’s undergraduate program, it would “continue to answer the urgent, growing need for well-formed justice practitioners.”
The school “fully appreciates the necessary synthesis for a true criminal justice profession that blends occupational skill and best practices with a constant, unapologetic moral and ethical critique of criminal justice operations,” Charles Nemeth, a professor of criminal justice and director of the school’s Center for Criminal Justice, Law, and Ethics, said in the release.
The school launched its criminal justice undergraduate program in the fall of 2021. “By all metrics, it is a fast-growing major on the campus and making a big impact not only on the life of our campus but also amongst the justice community,” he said.