College of Criminal justice
“Let justice be done through the heavens fall“
Greetings from Dean
DEPARTMENT DESCRIPTION
The College of Criminal Justice (CCJ) offers the Bachelor of Science in Criminology (BS Criminology), a program that prepares students for professional careers in law enforcement, criminal investigation, corrections, public safety, criminological research, and other related fields. The College provides a balanced foundation in criminology through theoretical instruction, practical training, research, and laboratory-based learning.
CCJ is committed to developing competent, ethical, and socially responsible criminology professionals equipped with the knowledge and skills necessary to contribute effectively to the criminal justice system and the community.
VISION
The College of Criminal Justice envisions becoming a distinguished Christian academic community that integrates Faith, Character, and Service in the pursuit of excellence in criminology and criminal justice education. Guided by Christian values, innovation, and academic excellence, the College aspires to develop globally competitive, ethical, and socially responsible professionals who promote justice, public safety, peace, and sustainable human development.
MISSION
The College of Criminal Justice is committed to providing quality Christian education that develops competent, ethical, and service-oriented criminal justice professionals. Through excellence in instruction, research, extension, and experiential learning, the College nurtures graduates who embody Christian values, servant leadership, academic excellence, and lifelong learning while responding to the evolving needs of the criminal justice system and contributing to national and global development.
OBJECTIVES
The College of Criminal Justice aims to:
- Deliver relevant, innovative, and outcomes-based instruction aligned with national and international standards in criminology and criminal justice education.
- Produce graduates who demonstrate professional competence, ethical conduct, Christian values, respect for human rights, and commitment to public service.
- Enhance students’ analytical, research, communication, technological, and leadership skills through experiential learning and evidence-based practices.
- Conduct research and extension programs that address community needs, promote crime prevention, and support the development of the criminal justice system.
- Establish collaborative partnerships with criminal justice agencies, industry partners, alumni, and other stakeholders to strengthen instruction, internship, research, and community engagement.
- Promote continuous assessment, quality assurance, and professional development to ensure the sustained excellence of the College and its graduates.
College of Criminal Justice (CCJ)
COURSES OFFERED
- CRIMINOLOGY
Bachelor of Science in Criminology
The Bachelor of Science in Criminology is a degree program that focuses on the scientific study of crime, criminals, victims, and the prevention and control of criminal behavior. Pursuant to Republic Act No. 11131, or the Philippine Criminology Profession Act of 2018, the program prepares students for professional practice in the fields of law enforcement, criminal investigation, corrections, public safety, criminological research, and other areas of criminology. Graduates may pursue careers in the Philippine National Police, Bureau of Jail Management and Penology, Bureau of Fire Protection, Bureau of Corrections, National Bureau of Investigation, private security, academe, and other related criminal justice agencies and institutions.
Course Title: Criminology 1
Introduction to Criminology
Course Description: This course presents an overview of the different schools of thought in criminology; theories that explain criminal behaviour; techniques for measuring the characteristics of criminals, crime and victims; the interrelatedness of theory, policy, and practice in the criminal justice system; and, current issues and studies in criminology.
Course Title: Criminology 2
Theories of Crime Causation
Course Description: This captures the theoretical perspective of crime causation committed by individuals and institutions. It provides a wide array of theories from all dimensions and aspects of the person, the society and the institutions such as political, economic, environmental, social, psychological and biological, women offenders, bio psychosocial and life course.
Course Title: Criminology 3
Human Behaviour and Crisis Management
Course Description: The course covers the study on human behaviour with emphasis on the concept of human development and abnormal behaviour. It includes strategies and approaches for handling different kinds of abnormal behaviour in relation to law enforcement and criminal
proceedings. It also includes the study of victimization, the role of community and techniques in assisting offenders’ reintegration and victims’ recovery.
Course Title: Criminology 4
Professional Conduct and Ethical Standards
Course Description: This course deals with the professional conduct and ethical standards expected among criminologist in view of the conduct of criminological research, law enforcement work, public safety, forensic science, criminalistics, and crime investigation. It also includes in the professional conduct and ethical standards for court witnesses.
Course Title: Criminology 5
Juvenile Delinquency and Juvenile Justice System
Course Description: This course deals with etiology of delinquent and criminal behaviour and the factors that bring about juvenile delinquency; prevention and control of teenage crime and manner of combating it; influence of community institutions on delinquency; establishments of recreation and character building agencies: counselling and guidance clinics for juveniles and police juvenile control bureaus; study of juvenile courts; probation service and correctional institutions: study of social welfare agencies and the laws applicable.
Course Title: Criminology 6
Dispute Resolution and Crises/Incidents Management
Course Description: This course deals with the study of the process of dealing and resolving conflicts/disputes resolution and crises management. It includes the art of intervention through mediation and reconciliation of disagreements between stakeholder’s agencies. Likewise, the course includes handling of crises that the criminal justice personnel are commonly encountered.
Moreover, the study significantly provides mechanisms on how to adopt strategies in dealing with potential and actual crises which are being addressed by concerned agencies and authorities from law enforcement, corrections and communities.
Course Title: Criminology 7
Criminological Research 1 (Research Methods with Applied Statistics)
Course Description: This is a three (3) units’ course which focuses on the conduct of criminological research on crimes, crime causation, victims and offenders to include deviant behavior. It encompasses the nature and concept of criminological research and the application of appropriate statistical tools in the analysis and interpretation of research data. This subject explores
the different ways in which criminological research is carried out. It includes the different styles of criminological research (e.g. case study, policy related, action-based), different types of research designs, and the use of statistics.
Course Title: Criminology 8
Criminological Research 2 (Thesis Administration Inter-Agency Approach)
Course Description: The course covers the study of the research methods, designs, applicable to the conduct of criminological research. It focuses on the conduct of qualitative and quantitative research in criminology and criminal justice fields. The learners will be provided competencies in identifying research topics, determining research methods, data analysis and interpretation, research budget planning, legal, ethical and safety considerations and measures in the conduct of research, research proposal and report presentation and research output endorsement procedures.
- CRIMINOLOGY
- LAW ENFORCEMENT ADMINISTRATION (LEA)
- FORENSIC
- CORRECTIONAL ADMINISTRATION 1
- CP
- CFLM
Course Title: Criminology 1
Introduction to Criminology
Course Description: This course presents an overview of the different schools of thought in criminology; theories that explain criminal behaviour; techniques for measuring the characteristics of criminals, crime and victims; the interrelatedness of theory, policy, and practice in the criminal justice system; and, current issues and studies in criminology.
Course Title: Criminology 2
Theories of Crime Causation
Course Description: This captures the theoretical perspective of crime causation committed by individuals and institutions. It provides a wide array of theories from all dimensions and aspects of the person, the society and the institutions such as political, economic, environmental, social, psychological and biological, women offenders, bio psychosocial and life course.
Course Title: Criminology 3
Human Behaviour and Crisis Management
Course Description: The course covers the study on human behaviour with emphasis on the concept of human development and abnormal behaviour. It includes strategies and approaches for handling different kinds of abnormal behaviour in relation to law enforcement and criminal
proceedings. It also includes the study of victimization, the role of community and techniques in assisting offenders’ reintegration and victims’ recovery.
Course Title: Criminology 4
Professional Conduct and Ethical Standards
Course Description: This course deals with the professional conduct and ethical standards expected among criminologist in view of the conduct of criminological research, law enforcement work, public safety, forensic science, criminalistics, and crime investigation. It also includes in the professional conduct and ethical standards for court witnesses.
Course Title: Criminology 5
Juvenile Delinquency and Juvenile Justice System
Course Description: This course deals with etiology of delinquent and criminal behaviour and the factors that bring about juvenile delinquency; prevention and control of teenage crime and manner of combating it; influence of community institutions on delinquency; establishments of recreation and character building agencies: counselling and guidance clinics for juveniles and police juvenile control bureaus; study of juvenile courts; probation service and correctional institutions: study of social welfare agencies and the laws applicable.
Course Title: Criminology 6
Dispute Resolution and Crises/Incidents Management
Course Description: This course deals with the study of the process of dealing and resolving conflicts/disputes resolution and crises management. It includes the art of intervention through mediation and reconciliation of disagreements between stakeholder’s agencies. Likewise, the course includes handling of crises that the criminal justice personnel are commonly encountered.
Moreover, the study significantly provides mechanisms on how to adopt strategies in dealing with potential and actual crises which are being addressed by concerned agencies and authorities from law enforcement, corrections and communities.
Course Title: Criminology 7
Criminological Research 1 (Research Methods with Applied Statistics)
Course Description: This is a three (3) units’ course which focuses on the conduct of criminological research on crimes, crime causation, victims and offenders to include deviant behavior. It encompasses the nature and concept of criminological research and the application of appropriate statistical tools in the analysis and interpretation of research data. This subject explores
the different ways in which criminological research is carried out. It includes the different styles of criminological research (e.g. case study, policy related, action-based), different types of research designs, and the use of statistics.
Course Title: Criminology 8
Criminological Research 2 (Thesis Administration Inter-Agency Approach)
Course Description: The course covers the study of the research methods, designs, applicable to the conduct of criminological research. It focuses on the conduct of qualitative and quantitative research in criminology and criminal justice fields. The learners will be provided competencies in identifying research topics, determining research methods, data analysis and interpretation, research budget planning, legal, ethical and safety considerations and measures in the conduct of research, research proposal and report presentation and research output endorsement procedures.
Course Title: LEA 1
Law Enforcement Organization and Administration
Course Description: This course deals about the processes in the organization, administration and management of law enforcement organizations, with emphasis on leadership, planning, decision-making, and conflict resolution. It would further deal with the policing theories, law enforcement techniques, law enforcement operations, crime prevention, and community relations. It will tackle the organization and functions of the different law enforcement agencies, in relation to criminal justice.
Course Title 2: LEA 2
Comparative Models in Policing
Course Description: This course focusses on the policing models implemented in the different countries. It includes the historical development of policing systems in dealing with different social crimes. The course will examine and compare the different policing models in the world. It includes analysis of the policing system of the international law enforcement organization.
Course Title: LEA 3
Introduction to Industrial Security Concepts
Course Description: The study covers the organizational set-up, administration and operation of security agencies, special police and investigation agencies. The course covers the study of the
concept and principles of industrial security. It includes the role of security profession in law enforcement administration and public safety, importance of security personnel in investigation, the concept of criminalistics in the field of industrial security investigation and crime detection, and the principles applicable to jurisprudence of criminal law, evidence, and criminal procedure in relation to the legal context of industrial security and related laws.
Course Title: LEA 4
Law Enforcement Operations and Planning with Crime Mapping
Course Description: This course focuses on the general guidelines and procedures on police operations that every police officer must perform and abide. It includes legal procedures in Search & Seizures, Raids, Arrest and Checkpoints. It also concentrates on Police Operational Planning with special procedures in police interventions during disaster and critical emergencies. Basically, this course covers the crime assessment and crime rates as a tool in drawing crime prevention and solutions.
Course Title: Forensic 1
Forensic Photography
Course Description: This course covers the historical development, principles and processes of photography in relation to law enforcement and criminal justice. This includes the evolution of camera, photographic processes and personalities behind the development of modern photography, use of forensic light sources and techniques and related laws and jurisprudence in photography.
Course Title: Forensic 2
Personal Identification Techniques
Course Description: The course is designed to enumerate and describe the different personal identification techniques applied in crime detection and investigation. Specifically, it focuses on fingerprint recording, developing of latent prints and identification and classification of fingerprints for purposes of court presentation.
Course Title: Forensic 3
Forensic Chemistry and Toxicology
Course Description: This course provides an overview of the major disciplines of forensic chemistry and forensic toxicology, with examples to demonstrate their specific contributions to
identification, collection, preservation, investigation, presentation, and biological and chemical analyses of physical evidence for the effective dispensation of justice.
Course Title: Forensic 4
Questioned Document Examination
Course Description: This course covers the basic concepts and principles of questioned documents examination. It particularly gives insight regarding the handwriting identification, forgery and its execution, typewriting identification, alteration of documents, counterfeiting and the importance or role of a questioned document expert towards the administration of justice, and the care and preservation of evidence for court litigation.
Course Title: Forensic 5
Lie Detection Techniques
Course Description: This course includes the study of lie detection techniques, focuses in the conduct of polygraph examination, use of polygraph instrument using the standard procedures as applied in criminal investigation, detection of crime and administration of justice.
Course Title: Forensic 6
Forensic Ballistics
Course Description: The course involves a scientific study of firearm identification with the use of laboratory examination. The subject gives emphasis on the study of ammunitions, projectiles, gunpowder, primer and explosives, including the use of the bullet comparison microscope. It also deals with the principles in the microscopic and macroscopic examination of firearm evidences and the preparation or reports for legal proceedings in the solution of cases involving firearms.
Course Title: CA 1
Institutional Correction
Course Description: The course covers an examination of the history, philosophy and objectives of imprisonment and the development of prisons. A study of institutional agencies in the Philippine, to include BJMP which oversees city and municipal jails, provincial jails and
the Bureau of Corrections and their institutions in terms of their structures, management, standards, program and services. A critical analysis of the laws creating these agencies to determine areas for possible improvement.
Course Title: CA 2
Non-Institutional Correction
Course Description: The course focuses on Presidential Decree 968, otherwise known as the “Probation Law of 1976 as Amended” establishing a probation system in the Philippines, its historical background, philosophy, concepts and operation as a new correctional system, investigation selection and condition of probation, distinction between incarceration, parole, probation and other forms of executive clemency, total involvement of probation in the administration of the Criminal Justice System.
This course also treats the study of Act 4103, as amended otherwise known as the “Intermediate Sentence Law” that created the Board of Pardons and Parole, systems of releasing and recognizant, execution, clemency and pardon.
Course Title: CA 3
Therapeutic Modalities
Course Description: The course covers the review on laws on human rights, different forms of human rights violation, government programs for the welfare of the victims, treatment models, and the developmental aspects of therapeutic modalities.
Course Title: CP1
Internship 1
Course Description: This course is intended to develop an understanding and exposure in the Psychology and Sociology of Crimes, Crime Detection and Investigation and Criminalistics, actual operation of a police station/department or a penal institution. Fire department and Security Agencies and such other agencies comprising the five pillars of the Criminal Justice System and the relationship between them and in conjunction with the academic program; off campus or practicum program in selected police agencies; actual field work, observation and practice of police tasks, activities or operation, including patrol, traffic, crime investigation, criminalistics, performed internships requiring observations in penal institutions, jail reformatories in DSWD, NBI, CHR, NAPOLCOM and such other agencies related to the course/program.
Course Title: CP 2
Internship 2
Course Description: The course deals with the practical application of the subjects in Criminology specifically crime causation, victimization, core values of internship, preparation
of reports used in Tri-Bureaus, procedures in the usage of laboratory equipment. It also includes the character formation and physical conditioning and case study presentation.
Course Title: CFLM1
Character Formation 1 – Nationalism and Patriotism
Course Description: The course covers the study of the concepts and principles of nationalism and patriotism specifically the application of knowledge to law enforcement administration, public safety and criminal justice and embodied in the applicable law and jurisprudence.
Course Title: CFLM2
Character Formation 2 – Leadership, Decision-Making, Management and Administration
Course Description: This is a three-unit course designed to provide criminology students with a strong foundation consisting of research theory oriented, and inter-disciplinary approaches such that they develop their own principles and theories that may provide consistent guidelines for their leadership, decision-making.
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