Throughout my adolescent life, I never had an idea of what I wanted to do as a career. It seemed as if all my peers had some kind of idea but I was just stuck. If I knew one thing about what I wanted to do when I was older, it would be that I wanted to help make a difference for the better along with helping others improve their lives. When I decided that I wanted to major in criminal justice, I kept that factor in mind. As of right now, the career I am most interested in for the criminal justice field would be a Correctional Treatment Specialist. A Correctional Treatment Specialist, often called a case manager or correctional counselor, is essentially someone who works with criminal offenders and assists in their transition from the prison world to the real world. A correctional treatment specialist’s counseling work often involves counseling related to sexual abuse, anger management, or drug abuse. Typical duties for this career include studying past behavior, evaluation of an inmate’s social progress, and helping acquire job …show more content…
They are the professionals who link the criminal justice system and social services systems. They work in order to determine the needs of offenders and develop a plan to be followed while incarcerated and throughout their probation, parole or release. Parole officers work alongside correctional treatment specialists to ensure that the plans are being followed. In this career, good communication skills are required. With doing the evaluation of behavior, one must conduct interviews with the intimate themselves and even consult with correctional officers, supervisory personnel, and psychologists. Without a doubt, there will be difficult people to work with. Patience and understanding are two critical factors to have in this career. Having thick skin will also be helpful because the career is not meant to be taken
Ladies and Gentlemen: Before stating my intention about the course for which I seek admission to the St Joseph University Criminal Justice Program with emphasis in behavior analysis, I would like to take this opportunity to briefly introduce myself. I am an African immigrant of Liberian descent. I am the oldest of my parents seven children. The African tradition demands that I am just as responsible for the wellbeing of the family as my mother. At an early age, mother ingrained in me that education was an essential prerequisite to the empowerment I needed to fulfil my obligation to my immediate and extended families and myself.
The career I have chosen has to do with criminal justice. Criminal justice is something that 's always seemed to grab my attention. It 's something I feel I was born to be interested in. I really enjoy helping others in any way so I figured why not pursue a career as a probation officer. Not only will I be helping others, but I will be preventing an offender from repeating the same mistake.
The thing I want to do when I complete college is to be a parole officer. A parole officer job supervise criminal offenders who have been released from prison. They monitor parolees, help them find suitable living arrangements and meet with assigned parolees regularly. To be able to compete in this career field I have to earn a Bachelor's degree in criminal justice, psychology, or social work. After completing 4 years of college I will have to complete a series classes that cover correctional strategies, forensics, legal research, criminal psychology and offender rehabilitation.
Having already earned a bachelor’s degree in criminology and criminal justice, I am currently applying to a master’s in public policy and administration program with a specialization in criminal justice policy and administration. It is my career goal to address criminal justice issues, such as mass incarceration, through research, program development and evaluation, and policy analysis, especially as they affect the most vulnerable members of our society. Although the Spring 2016 Criminal Justice Research Internship was posted over a month ago, I am still going through with this submission because it is exactly the type of work I want to do and I believe that criminal justice reform hinges on the collaboration between local and state agencies.
Students in the criminal justice department are taught that our main objective in the justice system and our careers is to serve and also protect those involved in our community. For as long as I can remember, my goal in life has been to provide service by protecting and serving those who are close to me. My penchant for service is what eventually led me to the Criminal Justice program at Valdosta State University. This passion for service began at a very young age when my life was turned upside down when I relocated from Puerto Rico to the state of Georgia due to a tragic car accident that led to the end of my father’s life. This sudden change of lifestyle and heartbreak came with an extreme amount of struggle and culture shock not just
I will also provide detailed examples of each of those roles in action within the law enforcement, corrections and court system environments. The psychologist is vital in numerous exclusive roles in the criminal justice system. The psychologist can become the applied scientist, the basic scientist, the policy
Jaylee Wilson Dr.Muller ENC1101 03/15/2023 How to become a criminal profiler Have you ever wondered what it takes, the science and psychology behind catching serial killers, murderers, child abductors, serial rapist and America’s most wanted criminals? There is a special job made to catch these gruesome criminals, it takes years of experience as well as having intelligence in the Psychology field. This specific job is called criminal profiling. A criminal profiler occupies the intersection of Psychology and law-enforcement. Found in International Encyclopedia of social and behavioral science they state, “Criminal profiling refers to the process in which the nature of crime is used to make
Career and College Research paper What is a police officer? Most people in the world today think they know or have there own idea of what the job title is. The career I chose is police officer. The best local college for this job is Oklahoma state university/Oklahoma City (OSU/OKC) because of their reputation for graduating police officers in Oklahoma.
Is your first instinct to say one with a criminal conviction should never be a teacher? Why or Why Not? Discuss. I personally feel a person who holds a criminal background should be able to be a teacher under the following conditions: criminal conviction was due to a minor infraction, the quantity of convictions is minimal, and the conviction did not occur recently. Minor infractions can included the following: drug possession, petty theft, and driving under the influence (DUI).
Parole officers, on the other hand, typically work with high-risk offenders who have been released from prison. These offenders may have a history of violent or serious crimes, and may be more difficult to work with than probationers. Parole officers must balance the need to protect society with the need to help the offender successfully reintegrate into the community. They must work to establish strong relationships with the offender, while also enforcing the more intensive set of conditions imposed upon
Crime has been at its highest this year. Forensic science has played a major part in investigating crimes and searching for evidence that is not seen by the naked eye(Dillon). The field of forensics is continually growing, causes of death have become more interesting, autopsies are more critical, and the salary is appreciable(Gewin). Since there are only 18 forensic science undergraduate programs in the US that have been authorized by the American Academy of Forensic Science, my prospective college choices are limited. After tackling the time it will take to earn my bachelors in forensics(4 years), then finish medical school and four years of residency, it will eventually all be worth the wait.
The Profession of Social Work as a Career Goal Graduating from high school, I have always had a passion working with kids. I never put into thought exactly what I wanted to do with kids, all I knew was that I wanted to work with kids. At first, my career choice was to become a midwife. There were several complications down the road, in which I could no longer pursue that career choice.
“Correction officers supervise convicted offenders when they are in jail, in prison, or in the community on probation or parole” (National Center for Victims of Crime, 2008). When a defendant is found guilty, they are usually sentenced to time in jail, houses of correction, prisons, probation, or parole. When they are sentenced to time in prison, it is the responsibility of corrections and their officers to ensure that the defendant is treated humanely. It is also their job to make sure that the correctional facility that is holding the offender is safe and secure.
Furthermore, the parole system is known to have a multitude of problems laced within it, these problems can be solved by focusing on parolee and parole officer relationships, and partaking in systems that improve the underlying issues. Following through to fix these affairs may seem unrealistic, but a solution could be in sight. Issues within the parole system in the United States include the ineffectivity of parolees meeting with their supervising
Over the past three and a half years I have spent my life studying in school. I have studied for hours and hours about the field of criminal justice; the reason it exists, its history and development, theories that are used to explain topics in criminal justice, and cases that have been monumental in changing the way that criminal justice works. While all of these are great to learn about the field of criminal justice itself cannot be learned from reading textbooks and memorizing theories. This is why I am interested in an internship with the Griffin Police Department. I want to learn how the criminal justice system is in action, how things actually play out outside of the scholastic setting.