Criminal Justice Career Goals

My career goal is working with young kids that are already caught in the criminal justice. I want to work with these specific young teens because I believe there need to be better ways do deal with juveniles in our current criminal justice System. I am also interested in working with young kids that are in higher risks because I believe early preventions its important and if it happen as soon as these kids started showing signs of disobedience there is a greater chance of keeping them out of trouble. Also, this means that parents involvement as well in this process can help their kids staying away from criminal activities. By taking criminal justice courses, I learned that a great amount of teens once they entered the criminal justice they
Because I did not know what to study I was all over the place for those semesters. I remembered my Bottom Line counselor telling me to explored the different majors and classes, and constantly told me that I had plenty of time to decide my major. By the end of my first year, I knew I wanted to work with people, but what I didn’t know was what exactly I wanted to do in the future. At some point, I was taking business classes then, I realized that I didn’t like that particular field. It was not until my sophomore year on my second semester that I switched to College of Arts and I took my first sociology course, which was introduction to Sociology. I liked the class, I liked the ideas that was presented in class discussions. From that moment, I knew I was at a right place, so that semester I declared my major to be Sociology. Also, it was not until a took course name “Youth in America Society” that I realized that I wanted to work with young kids. This class helped understanding more how youth behavior, lifestyles can lead them to the wrong path, and as society in some ways we are failing on preventing them on making those poor