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Program Overview

The Falls Church High School Criminal Justice program is designed for students who are considering a career in criminal justice. The program prepares students for career opportunities within the criminal justice system as well as entrance into institutions of higher learning. Specific areas of training will be provided in criminal law and investigation, security training, communications, emergency response, crimes, search and seizures, arrests, crime prevention, court procedure and police operations as well as an in-depth study of crime in America, our courts in action, and law enforcement efforts to deal with crime. The program is structured to give students a strong academic background with the skills and knowledge necessary to meet the needs of a career in any of the cited fields. In addition, experts from various agencies provide in-depth information and experiences.

Finally, students will gain knowledge of employment careers in private and mechanical security systems as well as local, state, and federal law enforcement.


Mission

The Mission of the Falls Church High School Criminal Justice program is to increase the value of student learning experiences by applying core academic skills in realistic as well as relevant criminal justice settings.


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Vision

The Vision of the Falls Church High School Criminal Justice Program is to increase:

1. Awareness of criminal justice-related situations for which our day to day existence as citizens within the global society is influenced.

2. Relevance with regard to the correlation between core academics and criminal justice-related careers, specific job-related tasks, education, and personal situations.

3. Understanding of criminal justice-related topics in order to prepare individuals for successful development of solutions for enhancing careers, specific job-related tasks, education, and personal situations.

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Resources

The following are various resources that we found helpful to our students:

FCPS Criminal Justice Page

This web page may contain links to one or more pages that are outside the FCPS network. FCPS does not control the content or relevancy of these pages.

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Mark Boger
Criminal Justice 1 & 2

Phone: 703-207-4057

Email: Mark.Boger@fcps.edu