Criminal Justice Career

Finding a career to pursue an be a challenging and long process. However, once a person narrows down their career field it become easier to decide on which path to choose. The criminal justice field has three different aspects that work together to ensure that justice is served. The first is police, which is where the careers like police officers are. The second is the courts where jobs like being a judge, or a lawyer. The third and final part is corrections where parole officers work. (Schmalleger) During my last two years of high school, I have had to really think and decide on the career that I have wanted to pursue. I wanted to find a way to fuel my passion of reading, writing, and spending time with animals, make enough money to live
I have helped in a thrift store my church owns, and become a pro at running a concession stand, however, this also made me realize that I do not want to work in customer service type jobs. I job shadowed a police officer, and at The Daily American, which did help me narrow my options down. In the past year I have also discovered more about the career I want with getting more involved with helping out in the school library and the school newspaper. My goals are rather simple, but it has taken me awhile to figure out. I want to earn enough money to support myself, to be good at what in my career, and to enjoy going to work each day. My other career goal is to eventually become an established writer. I am currently an undecided major, however, I am most likely going to major in criminology with a minor in creative writing. I have decided to go with a criminology major because I do have an interest in becoming a criminologist. I am currently studying at the Allegany College of Maryland, for several reasons. The first is because I wanted to see what a
It has taken a long time to choose a career, and I have gone through many other options before deciding on this. I think a criminologist is a good career for me, because I have not been deterred from it, and there has not been a part of it that I would not enjoy. For example, I did not want to be a vet, because I do not like to see animals in pain. I did not want to be a truck driver, because I am not that big into driving. More recently, I do not want to be a cop, because I am more interested in the why then catching a criminal. The other reason I think this would be a good career for me is because I like to figure out why people are the way that they are, and why people do the things that they do. I enjoy studying human behavior, and I have always held an interest in learning about why criminals are criminals, and what drove them to choose that crime, and could it have been prevented. Another reason I think this career would be a better fit for me, than other fields in the criminal justice program, like attorney, or police officer, is because I am not too interested in the law part, or arresting people, but I am into finding out the why and