Biography
The Criminal Justice major at Cedar Crest College is an interdisciplinary designed to provide an academically challenging program of studies that will prepare students to assume leadership positions in the various professional arenas associated with criminal justice. Students will also have hands-on practical experience when they engage in a senior year field experience in a community-based criminal justice setting.
A degree in criminal justice will prepare the student for leadership positions in a variety of professions that include:
- Correctional Management
-Probation and Parole
-Child Welfare Services
-Child Abuse Investigative Services
-Foster Care Services
-Mental Health Practitioners
-Drug and Alcohol Referral, Evaluation, and Service Industries
-Federal Law Enforcement (FBI, DEA, IRS, ATF, US Marshall, Federal Probation, Federal Bureau of Prisons, and the U.S. Department of Justice)
-State Law Enforcement (Bureau of Narcotic Investigation and Drug Control, PA)
-Attorney General’s Criminal Investigation Division
-Not-for-profit Agencies
-Security (transit, industrial and personnel security, intelligence analysis, public safety and homeland security, fraud/bank investigation, and emergency preparedness)
Industry Expertise (1)
Corrections
Areas of Expertise (3)
Correctional Management
Criminal Justice
Criminal Behavior
Accomplishments (2)
Chief Juvenile Probation Officer (professional)
2009-04-01
Chief Juvenile Probation Officer County of Lehigh PA May 1983 – April 2009 (26 years)
Consultant (professional)
2015-01-01
Consultant for Community Justice Panels The Impact Project 2009 – Present (6 years)
Education (3)
International Institute for Restorative Practices: M.R.P., Youth Counseling 2010
Kutztown University of Pennsylvania: M. Ed., Counselor Education/School Counseling and Guidance Services 1977
Muhlenberg College: B.A., Psychology 1971
Affiliations (2)
- County of Lehigh PA
- Community Justice Panels
Links (1)
Articles (1)
Criminal Justice Students Learn First-Hand about Delinquent Youth Services
Cedar Crest College
2012-01-01
Criminal justice students in Adjunct Professor Paul Werrell’s juvenile justice class at Cedar Crest College recently took a field trip to Glen Mills School, a school for court-referred youths in Glen Mills, PA, where they got a first-hand look at the operations of a facility that houses approximately 750 young men.
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