Criminal Justice Plan

All throughout senior year of high school, I had a set plan on what I was going to major in when I attended college, become a Social Worker. The second day of college classes, suddenly I did not have a plan. The job was no longer appealing to me. I am currently undeclared. Upon making the decision to become undeclared, I began to gravitate towards government type occupations. I have always been drawn towards criminals mostly; how they think, how their mind works. Into to Crime and Justice will not only be an interesting class to learn more about the criminal justice system, but it will also give me the opportunity to decide if this is a path that I should follow.
By taking Intro to Crime and Justice, my plan is to decide if the Criminal Justice System is a path I want to go down. I hope to learn how the justice system works and how it is evolving and changing. Laws that were relevant one hundred years ago may no longer be relevant in present day. It seems like multiple nitty gritty laws are being made and put into effect, but for what? How is it that America has opened more prisons than colleges and universities in the past fifty years? It is appalling to me, how fast our criminal rates are growing. Although I do not know much about the criminal justice system, I plan …show more content…
Media also has a big impact on how we view the system as well. The media is very biased. News stations choose to report stories they feel are necessary knowledge to the public. Most cases, the stories are about homicides. Since all we ever here are “this person that was killed and that person that was killed,” we are trained to believe that the majority of crimes being committed are crimes that result in death. And that is not the case; most crimes committed do not end in death. There are thousands of property crimes that do not get reported on the news because they are seen as