Question:How Do You Prepare For A Career In Criminal Justice?

How to Prepare for a Career in Criminal Justice

･ 1 Get involved in extracurricular activities while in high school. Activities such as the drill team... ･ 2 In high school or college, join a club that is comprised of criminal justice students or those with... ･ 3 Familiarize yourself ...

What careers are in criminal justice?

Because there will always be crime, there will also always be jobs in the criminal justice field. Those looking to protect the public and ensure justice may find a fulfilling job in the wide variety of criminal justice career opportunities....

What are some of the careers in Criminal Justice?

Deanna, Thanks for the question. The law enforcement career field is wide open, depending on what you want to do. If you do not wish to be a street police officer, there are positions like: corrections, court security, forensics, lawyers, a...

Any Correctional officers out there?!?

Q: I have to interview a CO and was wondering if any of you can answer these questions?1. Personal profile of individual being interviewed, gender, age, years employed in CJ arena.2. what social factors influenced your decision to pursue a career in criminal justice?3. Are institutions appropriate settings in which to modify an individuals behavior?4. What impact does overcrowding have on reform of institutional programs in the prison system?5. The correctional treatment process has many elements. The key to treatment is an organized program designed to prepare the inmate for successful reintigration within the free community. How have you contributed to the success of the correctional treatment process?6. The nations correctional system is in crisis and it is clear that we cant possibly build ourselves out of the current prison and managment crisis. what do you believe is the solution to the crisis plaging our correctional system?7. Do you believe that community based corrections a less structured alternative to incarceration, is an affective deterrent to recidivism?8. The medical model in corrections implies that criminal behavior is comparable to a disease and if diagnosed can be treated and the offender cured. Do you have any confidence in the success of the medical model or do you view the model as failure?9. How vital do you see your position in corrections as a catalyst for positive change?Thanks for the response, these arent questions i have to answer, but i have to interview someone who can answer these. Im having problems because i dont know any CO personally.

A: I worked in several facilities in the past and this looks like questions you are being asked, but I will help a little: Its against the law to ask #1(age and gender); 2. I'm committed to pursue a career in the cj system because...3. Institutions are appropriate when one's behavior cannot be modified alone or he is no longer fit to contain himself in society. Groups impact pressures to contain unfit behavior.4. Overcrowding does nothing but initiate riots. Which agains as said before "groups impact pressure to contain unfit behavior-in or out of prison. 5. You need to list work kind of work you've done in the past that relate to treatment in a correctional institution.6. The crisis right now is "building" out of control. Too many institutions are being erected but no rehabilitation. Too much thought of "containing" the violent acts for a short while and then they go back into society same as they were before. Prison needs to be a hard place, not a holiday inn. Prisoners need to pull their weight while they are locked-up, not get free dental, free schooling, free medical, and a warm bed to sleep. My opinion: I've worked with inmates, while in prison and when they get out, and they laugh that prison is a synch. Its like going away to college for a while because the treatment isn't hard enough; I think they owe their victims and the victims advocates should be counseling them while they are contained. Every time they get commissary money, a portion should go to the victim or family. I am sickened to the great proportion of funds each government spends on building more prison complexes with luxuries. Camps are where they should spend their time, not air conditioned, cable TV access, and state of the art facilities.