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Criminal Justice School  
School of Criminal Justice is an affiliated school of ECUPL. It's the only teaching unit in east China that offers programs in public security for higher education. The School of Criminal Justice offers 3 undergraduate courses: the major of reconnaissance study (including the major of economic reconnaissance and criminal reconnaissance), the major of public security and frontier defense management. It also offers 4 LLM programs in reconnaissance, judicial verification, criminal justice and juvenile delinquency.
At present, the School of Criminal Justice boasts an excellent faculty of more than 40 staff and more than 800 students. The staff-student ratio is reasonable. There are 15 professors or associate professors (accounting for over 65% of the total professional teachers) who enjoy good reputation in their fields. Some professors are experts in reconnaissance study and criminal justice.

Some are praised as expert consultants by Shanghai Judicial Verification Expertise Committee. Furthermore, the school recruited many well-known experts as part-time professors from judicature practice department in Shanghai and east China.

The faculty of the school has yielded abundant results in scientific researches. In the past few years, it has published and compiled a good number of specialized books, reference books, textbooks and several hundred papers. Reconnaissance Study is awarded with the title "Elite Course of the university" and other 8 courses such as Economic Crime Game Theory and Judicial Verification have been regarded as the university¡¯s key disciplines. The school stands out in schools of its kind nationally and is responsible for the compilation of Criminal Justice Encyclopedia and also intends to publish 100 pieces of writing.

School of criminal justice is a mature research base and has 3 internal journals including Crime Investigation, Juvenile Crimes and Delinquency and Investigation on comprehensive control (internal journal). It has 9 research centers such as Shanghai Research Institute of Comprehensive Control of Social Security, the Research Institute of Juvenile Delinquency and also 2 verification organizations, namely Judicial Verification Center and Center of Measurement of ECUPL, as branch center of East China Center of Measurement. Taking advantage of these verification organizations, the faculty applies expertise to law enforcement. For instance, it completes a lot of forensic analysis and physical evidence verification. By doing so, it collects a huge amount of data, which are useful to enrich the content of teaching and improve the quality of teaching. It has solved many difficult problems in judicial practice and got a high opinion from more than 20 provincial and municipal judicial organizations all over the country.
School of Criminal Justice boasts first-class facilities and all the necessary teaching equipment. The new laboratory in the Songjiang Campus has recently been built. The detached three-floor lab building has labs for criminal photography, trace verification, file verification and forensic analysis. The new lab will receive a financial aid of more than 26,000,000 yuan from the National

Treasury. It will purchase advanced equipment, which will provide a good environment for teaching and research.

During the past few years, School of Criminal Justice has played an important role in exploring the new school operating methods. It deepens the cooperation with the higher educational institutions in the U.S.A. and U.K. It has attained great achievements, among which the cooperation with Sam Houston State University has been put into practice. We will jointly culture professional talents who can meet the international requirements.