Criminal Justice Career Research Paper

I have always focused on positions that were mostly business oriented. For most of my career, I have all been an administrative assistant. When I started the undergraduate program, I had to take criminal justice classes as electives and it became very interesting to me. Watching all the criminal shows, it really made me think about changing my career options. With a master’s degree in criminal justice, I would be able to advance my career options in law enforcement. I plan to use my degree to help others who has very little knowledge of criminal laws. If I had not taken criminal justices courses during my undergrad studies, I would not have learned about the Miranda rights, when being placed under arrest. There are so many people out there …show more content…
Having a Master’s degree, will put me in a different bracket as far as becoming on the administrative side becoming a probation officer. If a person’s heart is into their job, I feel that they can make a difference in someone’s life. Sometimes all it takes to get a person on the right track is to know that someone cares for you and only want what is best. Criminal justice can offer many other opportunities in several departments other than becoming a probation officer. Someday, I may even get the chance to work in forensics. It is amazing how a drop of evidence can determine a person’s faith. The study of forensics, commonly used by police departments and prosecutors around the world, frequently relies upon these small bits of shed DNA to link criminals to the crimes they commit. This fascinating science is often portrayed on popular television shows as a simple, exact, and infallible method of finding a perpetrator and bringing him or her to justice. In truth, however, teasing out a DNA fingerprint and determining the likelihood of a match between a suspect and a crime scene is a complicated process that relies upon probability to a greater extent than most people realize (Norrgard,