Academic Statement:
I am passionate about Criminal Justice and have chosen it to be my undergraduate major. After three years college, I am keen on becoming better and to have a deeper understanding of the causes and consequences of crime and explore how crime affects our society and how to reduce and prevent unnecessary crimes. I also realized that the purpose of my life is to contribute myself to the maintenance of social order and the pursuit of a peaceful world. Thus, I hope to further my knowledge in Criminal Justice and study up to the most advanced level of graduate education. By attending graduate school, I know that I will have many classes and exams that require me to conduct a large amount of research.
In pursuing my graduate
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My current plan for graduate study is to acquire a Master’s degree focusing on the fields of “Corrections, Reentry, and Restorative Justice” and “Violence Prevention and Control.” The areas of
Criminal Justice program I am interested in are varied at this moment, but I expect to develop a deeper understanding of my options through the course of my continued education.
During my undergraduate years, I was able to vastly improve my leadership and interpersonal skills working with the help of a variety of excellent students. Besides a summer internship at the USA Treasury
Department (Washington DC, 2015 Summer) to fulfill a deeper understanding of the potential economic crimes, I also completed a few of fundamental and mid-level courses to enrich my professional knowledge which include
Introduction to Criminal Justice, Introduction to Sociology, Criminology,
Criminal Procedure, Policing, Juvenile Justice, Comparative and Historical
Criminal Justice, and Social Problems. Currently, I am taking three Criminal
Justice courses such as Corrections, Homeland Security, and Crime Mass Media
& Society. In the coming summer, I will consider enrolling and
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The major courses of the Criminal Justice curriculum that interest me most include CJ 801
(Crime Causation, Prevention, and Control), CJ 809 (Issues in Criminal
Justice), CJ 822 (Comparative Criminal Justice), CJ 823 (Globalization of
Crime), CJ 847 (Global Risks, Conservation, and Criminology), CJ 855
(Delinquency Prevention and Control), CJ 866 (Adult and Juvenile Corrections
Programs), and CJ 873 (Legal Issues in Criminal Justice). I will thoroughly enjoy all my subjects and apply myself fully to them with the analytical and empirical skills they require. In addition, I plan to take opportunities to be engaged in advanced Criminal Justice research, creative activities, and internships. To me, there has never been a more exciting or more important time to study the Criminal Justice program to maximize my graduate experience. My short-term career goal is to improve my education and develop my social and leadership skills so that I can apply for an internship at a
Criminal Justice department and be able to utilize and display my acquired skills to participate in the department’s meetings. My long-term goals involve finishing college with a doctoral degree, then entering a career
Students also learn the history, concepts, and critical issues related to the role of gender and race/ethnicity in the criminal justice system, victimology, and ethics in criminal
As the internship program and the training intended, I have learned much related to my major, Criminal Justice. This internship helped me to acknowledge that qualified, knowledgeable professionals are needed by our complex society to define, administer, and put our rules and standards into force. Like jobs in any other field, to work in the field of law requires expertise. Trained experts are the most desirable to be hired by organizations, tasked to manage justice, to direct their operations. By writing articles for the legal website, I learned to assess law enforcement situations orderly. I learned to make use of the basic legal and management theories to analyze the situations. I got the opportunity to show my understanding of the key process in the U.S. criminal justice system. I also learned to combine approaches from management, law, and the behavioral science to apply them to the situations I was studying.
I believe that it is dire for criminal justice professionals to know and understand the history of the field of corrections to promote progressive change and enhancement. It is simply impossible to progress without knowing where the system has failed or faltered. I find this essential in a field that directly influences and affects humans. Professionals in the field of criminal justice are not only responsible for meeting the needs and desires of law-abiding civilians, but they are, more critically, responsible for responding to and reprimanding lawbreakers.
Criminal justice practitioners are necessary for a civilized society. Without those who form boundaries to our freedom, and the ones that reinforce those laws, our community would be chaos. Some of the main social issues our society faces are drug abuse, gang violence, child abuse, and terrorism. The criminal justice practitioners face these types of issues daily. These professionals must act on the morals and laws stated by society rather than their own opinions, sometimes facing hard decisions. The criminal justice field is always active and busy, dealing with countless amount of criminal activity throughout the country.
Fred is drunk and driving his dad’s car. Fred is a 21 year old student at Columbia College. Fred rams into a parked car at 10th and Rogers. Thinking no one saw him; Fred moves his car and parks it on an adjacent lot. He sprints to his dorm room in Miller Hall. A neighbor saw the wreck and Fred running to the dorm. Police are called and they arrive ten minutes after the wreck. The officers see several empty beer cans and a bottle of tequila (half full) in the front seat. The tags are traced to Fred’s dad, who is called by police. Dad says that Fred is a student at Columbia College. Police run Fred's record and determine that he has two prior DWIs within the past five years. The third DWI in 10 years is a felony. Police contact
Please accept this personal statement as a part of my application for the doctoral program in criminal justice starting the fall semester of 2016. The University of Southern Mississippi is my ideal location for the achievement of a doctoral degree. I would like to demonstrate my knowledge, experience, and research ability in the field of criminal justice and correctional studies. Having majored in the discipline as a former graduate student, I want to further my education to assist and promote future changes in criminal justice and correctional policy. I am looking forward to the opportunities your program has to offer and I believe my background and perspective in criminal justice will help enrich the program, as well.
My research as a student has started to prepare me to participate in my academic discourse community. I plan to use the information I have gained from my research to become a thoughtful and academically engaged member of my academic discourse community. I plan to learn the ways of thinking, communicating, and evaluating the ideas and concepts that are important to my community so I can successfully interact within it. As I take classes within my major, I expect the readings and writings of the criminal justice field to not only better prepare me for a career in law enforcement, but also assist me in my role as a member of the academic discourse community. I expect there will be quite a bit of practical reading and writing, but I also expect
1) There are multiple goal statements (see the highlighted statement in the body of your paper). What is the ultimate goal and thesis statement for this project?
This first week the assignment was to Define crime, its relationship to the law, and the two most common models of how society determines which acts are criminal, Describe the government structure as it applies to the criminal justice system, Identify choice theories and the their assumptions in regards to crime, Describe the components of the criminal justice system and the criminal justice process, Identify the goals of the criminal justice system.
I am currently a senior this year and will be graduating at the end of May with the Class of 2016. I will be attending Dixie State University this Fall 2016. My intended major is Criminal Justice with emphasis in Corrections. I have always been interested in the Criminal Justice system, the way they use evidence to solve hard cases and how much Criminal Justice can make a difference to society. I also want to take that knowledge and bring it back to my community to help improve the Criminal Justice system on the Navajo Reservation including other neighboring different tribes. We have all seen the imperfect police officers and how they treat other ethnic groups or people who are in need, I want to show people that not all police officers are
Your final report should be a complete report of your internship experiences under the title "How I Evaluate Myself as a Future Criminal Justice Worker," and may not exceed five typed pages. Describe the extent to which the theoretical knowledge included your course work at the College of Criminal Justice at Sam Houston State University contributed to your field practice experience during your internship. Cite at least two SHSU courses. Show what you have learned, indicate how your ideas have
The Criminal Justice System goes as far back as the days of Jesus. There were Soldiers who acted like policeman, the tribune which was the court system, and Caesar, Herod and even Pontius Pilate stood as judge. The prison system was that of dark caves and dungeons. As we journey to the twenty-first century, nothing has genuinely changed. In my essay I will explicate how the various aspect of criminal justice relate to one another as well as why it so important in society. Criminal Justice refers to the facet of social justice that concern violators of criminal law. The
Law enforcement like much of the economy and society has had to adapt to the rapidly changing Atmosphere of the technological advances. To counter these advances, education has served in the forefront to combating the technological sophistication that is rapidly sweeping the workforce. The need and desire to remain competitive with the technology that we have is a need that can be satisfied with more education. Much like technology, education has benefits elsewhere in the equation of remaining competitive. Education on the higher tiered level provides a professionalism to accompany by the demands placed on students during their scholastic years of study. Activities required by many professors in the higher education
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I have a deep desire to understand and relate to the criminal mind. That being said, I dream of getting a Bachelor's or a Master in Criminology to become a criminal profiler or behavior analyst. With the help of the University, I would like to be able to build a profile from physical and behavioral, reconstruct the entire course of the crime, and come up with the best possible explanation from the information I am presented. I believe that the criminology courses and related internships the school provides could help me achieve my long term