Criminal Justice Graduate Promoted to Police Captain in Rhode Island as Fellow Alum Rises to Lieutenant

Angela Deneault (MET’14), a MS in Criminal Justice graduate, has been named captain of the Jamestown, Rhode Island police department. When she was first hired by the department in 1994, Deneault was the department’s first female police officer—the 30-year veteran of the force is now second in its command. Her previous post as lieutenant will be filled by another BU MET MSCJ graduate, Karen Catlow (MET’15), who has been with the department 21 years.

The MS in Criminal Justice at BU MET gives you the hard skills you need to advance in your law enforcement career, through a curriculum that emphasizes means to implement evidence-based policies and institute best practices. Students learn to analyze criminal behavior, apply principles of leadership in organizational settings, examine theories of social control, and gain an informed perspective of law enforcement, the judicial system, and corrections.