Criminologist Self-Evaluation

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For this piece of work, I will produce a self-evaluation of myself as a criminologist in this academic year and a reflection of my time and workload management.

The time and workload management was a key issue for me to perform as well as I have desired to in the beginning of the academic year.

to begin me reflection on my time management I had to arrange my personal life and arrange my daily schedules to flexible times that wore suitable for me. Personally I enjoyed learning about criminology and particularly about white collar crime how ever having lectures on a Friday and seminars on Monday was difficult for me to fit all extra work that I was given from my other modules also as my weekend job, attending lectures and seminars Monday to Friday.

Due to having the lectures on a Friday and only two days to prepare for the seminars sometimes
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Preparing for our critical commentary was time consuming and exhausting for me due to it being three hours long and having a busy schedule for that day, however it was something that I still enjoyed doing and solving a mystery of murder and have a true experience and feeling of what criminologist’s role consist off.

To complete the critical commentary assignment, I felt that I was given enough time to do my research visiting library and looking at different articles this was due to not having a big load of studying from my other subjects due to the exams coming up and having a self-study timetable enabling me to organise my time and workload.

The best part of module in my opinion was the creative element assignment, I was given enough time to prepare for it by watching crime documentaries and reading crime fictions to get an inspiration from to complete the assignment also as putting myself as an offender and expand my creative

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