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  School of Criminal Justice 2017-2019 Doctoral Program Admission to Candidacy: Required Sequence Completion and Defense of the Dissertation  

Completion and Defense of the Dissertation



The third major step of the dissertation process is the execution of the dissertation. This includes collecting data or identifying and preparing an available dataset; analyzing it as described in the prospectus; and reporting the results, implications, and contribution of the research to theory and extant research in the written dissertation. The structure, format, and length of the dissertation are determined in consultation with the dissertation committee chair, with approval of the committee.

Once the dissertation is completed and reviewed by the dissertation committee, the candidate schedules the oral dissertation defense. Like the prospectus defense, the dissertation defense is a scheduled public meeting that is open to fellow students and faculty. The dissertation defense date is set by the dissertation committee chair, with the approval of the Ph.D. director and dean of the School of Criminal Justice, and conveyed to the dean of the Graduate School-Newark. It should be scheduled in the Center of Law and Justice, room 572. 

 
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