Reflective Essay: Education Of The Criminal Justice

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I took this course in my first semester at CUNY John Jay. The course is mainly focused on education of the criminal justice, and it is an entry-level writing course that all college freshmen have to take, the scope of this course is to preparing freshmen for college level writings, logical comprehensive readings and research papers on their upcoming semesters at College, because high school is completely different than college. College expects all the freshmen proficiency in college level of writing and reading before they start to take 200 level college classes. In the class, I have been asked to read a lot of past unfair trials cases that actually happened in the United States, and the reading material usually covers the topics of racial

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