Research Comparing the Emotional Intelligence of Criminal Justice College Students in Experiential and Didactic Programs

This book contains an academic research study that assesses whether there is a significant difference in the levels of emotional intelligence between criminal-justice college students who were enrolled in an experiential program and criminal-justice college students who were enrolled in a didactic program. The participants were given the thirty-three item Schutte Self-Report Emotional Intelligence Test to measure levels of emotional intelligence. The findings indicate that emotional intelligence is directly related to hands-on training. Thus, because emotional intelligence may prove beneficial in the field, criminal-justice programs may want to consider offering some application-based courses.