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Degree In Criminology

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My parents first came to America in the mid 80s, they knew little to no English. Imagine coming to a brand-new country in your late 20s and the only people that you knew was the church that sponsored you. They had little to no money and had to raise four kids in a poor neighborhood. Since they were not familiar with the culture in America it was hard for them to adjust to this new lifestyle. It didn't help that all that surrounded them was gang violence and drugs. Once they became educated on how the area that we lived in was bad they tried their hardest to prevent their children from falling into a life of crime. Once they had enough money my parents moved our family into a better neighborhood, it still wasn't the best neighborhood but it …show more content…

When all you see is people heading down the wrong path all you want to do is help them. If I didn't have the parents that I have I probably would've went down the wrong path as well. The only thing that kept me from having a criminal background knows that my parents left their country in order to have a better life for themselves and their children. That's the one thing that pushed me and my siblings to want to do better so we don't have to struggle like our parents did. It said that these people that live in these troubled neighborhoods are in the system that is designed for them to fail. This is what made me want to pursue criminology so I can help the victims out of this vicious system. I've had close relatives fall victim to the social learning theory. Which pretty much means the neighborhood that they grow up in influenced the choices that they made, which they ended up suffering the consequences of those actions? It's sad when you see people that you grow up with going towards the wrong path and you can't do anything about it because you're just a kid at the time. My main focus with my degree is doing my best to help the victims get out of this ongoing cycle, so they can better their lives and hopefully become a better …show more content…

Yes at times we did test our parents and started to break the rules, but we always knew right from wrong at the end of the day. I think going up in these rough neighborhoods made me understand how easy it is to fall in the wrong path. You never really know how easy it is to go down the wrong path until you lived in these neighborhoods. Growing up in these bad neighborhoods made me appreciate and be grateful for the life that I live now. People that grow up in nicer neighborhoods tend to take things for granted and don't understand how good they have it. Never having to struggle and not know where your next meal is going to come from, people take these little things for granite. Social disorganization theory is going somewhere and social impairment affects their behavioral choices that they make. This is very true because I've seen many people let the neighborhood that they grew up in affect their behavior towards others. I feel like it was harder for my brothers to not engage in criminal activity than it was for me and my sister. Many of their friends that they grew up with didn't always have the best intentions at heart and tend to get them into trouble. It wasn't anything serious but serious enough for my periods to take actions into their own hands. My parents quickly nip that in the bud so they don't become victims of the system. I have sympathy for

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