<p>I want to become a criminal defense lawyer and eventually work my way up to become the DA. What are some GOOD schools that have a really good criminal justice program? I know of Albany but I hear thats not a great school. If not criminal justice, what are some schools that have great sociology or psychology programs? Thanks!</p>
<p>Northeastern University has a criminal justice program, but I dont know how great it is.</p>
<p>University of Maryland is #1 for Criminology and Criminal Justice</p>
<p>which maryland? there is a number of them.</p>
<p>my guess would be that schools located in areas with high crime rates would have a good criminology program, simply because they likely have a lot of great criminal minds they could evaluate for research.</p>
<p>Schools around the D.C., NYC, L.A., and Chicago areas are probably strong. Just a hunch.</p>
<p>i disagree with that. public perception is that some of these places are ighly dangerous to live in but that is not true. (a lot of times it has to do with the crime in the past).</p>
<p>NY and Chicago did not even make the top 25 most dangerous cities.</p>
<p>i live in a suburb in chicago. yes there are some areas that are pretty bad but we have to remember the immensity of these cities and the fact that there a huge areas in the city where there's no threat.</p>
<p>University of Maryland - College Park = #1
SUNY - Albany = #2
Penn State
UPenn
Indiana
University of Cinci</p>
<p>These are some of the top criminology programs in the country, however these are based on the graduate studies programs, i would assume its similar for undergrad.</p>
<p>macinici--I wasn't trying to attack the cities, I know all cities have good and bad spots.<br>
I was just using assumptions to come up with a list of cities that may--due to condensed populations of people--incur more criminal activity than your Fargos, or Cheyennes. Bigger cities are probably better prepared to fight criminal activities (due to experience and budgets), too, so the criminals in these larger cities are probably better and wiser. With more real criminals to evaluate in a criminology school's research, the more effective the school would be. I think that's logical, maybe?</p>
<p>yeah i see whats your saying and it sounds logical.</p>
<p>guapocarlos--- i'm curious to the source of where you got this infor. thanks</p>