Importance Of Appointment Of Purpose For Joining The FBI

As someone that will be joining the Marine Corps after I graduate and maybe going into the FBI this chapter fits the most with what I want to do. As long as there are rules to break there will be people who will break them. I have always wanted to help people, and until recently I did not know how I could do that. I have been changing my major constantly these last few years, but the one thing that stayed the same was my desire to help people. To join the FBI the individual has to be twenty-three and an American Citizen. If the individual passes the two phases of testing you may get a Conditional Letter of Appointment, but may not get the letter if your skills are not needed at the beau at the time. After receiving the letter the candidate …show more content…
A crime is a wrong against society proclaimed in a statute and, if committed, punishable by society (Miller pg.124). For a person to be convicted of a crime two things must happen. First, doing the prohibited act, and secondly “a specified state of mind or intent on the part of the actor” (Miller pg.125). There are many types of crimes such as: violent, property, public order crime, white collar crime, and organized crime.
Violent crimes are crimes against other people such as death or harm. Murder, rape, and robbery are examples of violent crimes. “In 2013, an estimated 1,163,146 violent crimes occurred nationwide, a decrease of 4.4 percent from the 2012 estimate” …show more content…
Firstly, embezzlement occurs when an employee steals funds, but it is not considered larceny or robbery because the person committing he crime is not physically taking the property of another and there is no use of fear or force used. Secondly, mail and wire fraud any scheme devised that uses any mail or wire service to defraud the public. The maximum penalty for someone convicted of mail or wire fraud is twenty years and/or fined. Thirdly, bribery is offering someone something of value to influence someone. Bribery occurs when something of value is offered to an individual; accepting the bribe is a different crime. There are three types of bribery: first is the bribery of public officials, second is commercial bribery, and third the bribery of foreign officials. Commercial bribes are corrupt dealings between private people or businesses. Next, bankruptcy fraud opens the door to numerous opportunities of white collar crime. Then, theft of trade secrets is a federal crime that prohibits buying or possessing trade secrets of another without their approval. An individual found guilty of this crime my spend ten years in prison and fined 500,000 dollars. If a corporation or organization commits this act then they can be fined up to five million dollars. Finally, insider trading is inside information