Seattle University certificate students should be able to:
Provide a foundation in criminological theory, statistics and research methods, criminal behavior, temporal and spatial crime analysis, criminal intelligence analysis
Prepare students for positions and advancement in Federal, state, and local criminal justice agencies as crime analysts and intelligence analysts
Foster the ability to design and execute applied research studies focused on crime and crime trends
Be able to use descriptive and inferential statistics to analyze crime and related social data
Be able to conduct temporal and spatial analyses of crime and related social data
Instilling knowledge of how to use a variety of computer databases to merge and draw data from diverse sources
Making effective oral presentations of crime analyses to specific audiences (including criminal justice officials, representatives of government, at professional conferences, and to the general public
Produce effective written analytic products suitable for publication and dissemination by criminal justice agencies
Conduct crime analysis and related research while maintaining strong ethical standards and awareness of moral and ethical implications of their work
Draw on relevant criminological theory to ensure underlying theoretical processes are sound, that subsequent analyses are theoretically grounded, and that broad perspectives are brought to bear on the complexity of crime analysis
