Jeffrey Golden, M.S., J.D.

I believe the criminal justice and legal systems, and the behavioral sciences, are integrally related and interdependent. Students who understand those relationships are in an excellent position to improve the lives of everyone they touch within those systems.

Community corrections encompass nearly every form of supervision and service provision to nonincarcerated persons in the criminal and juvenile justice systems. Leaders within those systems know how to effectively facilitate collaborative efforts that optimize offender rehabilitation and reintegration in the community. With a continuing shift away from more costly jail and prison sentencing and toward community corrections, the field is seeing significant growth. Our Master’s in Criminal Justice and Community Corrections degree will help you gain the knowledge, education, and experience to earn a leadership position in the field.

I am a former federal law clerk, prosecutor, mediator, division chief of a state law enforcement agency, chief of policy for a state juvenile justice agency, and law enforcement, corrections, probation, and parole academy instructor. I have developed policies, procedures, and training throughout the spectrum of community corrections, including for multiple state departments of corrections, probation, parole, and their human services providers. I train verbal de-escalation skills nationally in justice and human services systems.