Criminology Major and Minor

Criminology

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Program Highlights

Criminology Capstone

Our rigorous three-semester capstone sequence allows you to develop research, writing and statistical skills while working with specialized software and numerous data sets on crime and delinquency.

Real-World Experience

We encourage our criminology majors to put classroom learning to work in an internship setting. Our students have interned with local service agencies, the district attorney鈥檚 office, and the U.S. Secret Service.

Cocurricular Activities

You can learn while having fun serving the campus and local community through organizations like the Criminology and Sociology Club and the Pre-Law Society. You can raise funds, raise awareness and bond with your classmates.

Being a criminology major at 重口味SMhas provided me the tools to develop profound critical-thinking and writing skills while opening my eyes to new passions for the law and the criminal justice system.
Karlie Gorall '22 - Criminology

Behavioral Social Sciences

Faculty Spotlight

Dr. Andrew Wilczak

Professor

andrew.wilczak@wilkes.edu

Dr. Andy Wilczak is a specialist in adolescent violence and victimization and has recently branched out into historical criminology and the sociology of revolutions. He completed his PhD in sociology at Bowling Green State University in 2011. His first book, Gender, Crime, and Justice: Exploring the Dynamics is an accessible text that aims to make criminological theory more student-friendly. In addition to this, Dr. Wilczak has also worked extensively in public scholarship, organizing multiple online conferences and running a public scholarship podcast, Untenured Tracks, highlighting the scholarship of junior faculty and graduate students from around the world.

Bryan Stevenson Talks Racial Advocacy and Criminal Justice Reform

While at Wilkes, you鈥檒l have the opportunity to meet world-renowned guests like . Stevenson, an attorney, human rights activist and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative.

The author of the memoir 鈥淛ust Mercy,鈥� was a guest of the annual Max Rosenn Lecture in Law and Humanities. He spoke on his advocacy work and personal experiences and participated in a Q&A.

The Rosenn Lectures are open to the public, but as a 重口味SMstudent, you鈥檒l have exclusive access to small group sessions. Past guests have included Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anna Deavere Smith.