It’s like Forrest Gump said, “Life is like a box of chocolates.” A career is like a box of chocolates because you never know exactly what you’re are going to get, however, everything you get is going to teach you something along the journey that will make you the individual you are today. Pursuing a career is an adventure in itself and that’s what makes it exciting. There are many careers available, but criminal justice appears to be the most adventurous and provides many different avenues for an individual to choose from. Criminal justice history is advanced through cruelty, rebellion, discrimination, scheme, etc. The practice of criminal justice has been fashioned by many historical events and can be change at any moment. The foundation of our criminal justice system started in England and was eventually change due to the amendment of English Law to Colonial Law in our nation (highered.mcgraw). The cause of this amendment was due to the separation of the colonist from England and no longer having the need to survive the harsh conditions of the new world. These events lead to the colonists indulging in other activities that were criminal acts which birth the practices of America’s criminal justice. Today, criminal justice has evolved into many different departments such as the Police, Sheriff, US Marshall, FBI, CIA, SWAT, DEA, and ATF. All these components have one main focus and that’s to protect our society from any danger that tries to harm our community.
Criminal Justice was created in England in twenty-seven B.C. in roman cities. Criminal Justice started out with just five men wanting to help keep their community safe. It has developed pleasantly over the years. Criminal Justice now requires that an individual must a fo...
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...r society because to keep people of the community safe. That why criminal justice/law enforcement is a good career to choose because your passion for the job, the salary you will be earned, and the benefits you will receive.
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A polygraph examiner must have at least a bachelor’s degree. It does not have to be in any specific course of study but, it is highly recommended that your degree is one of four degrees. The four preferred degrees are criminal justice, forensic science, criminology, and forensic psychology. Another degree that will work is one in communications. A FBI special agent also needs to have a bachelor’s degree. An additional requirement is your GPA must be at least a 3.0. At the FBI what area you work in will determine the best degree concentration. A special agent investigating monetary crime should have a degree in accounting or finance. The FBI requires that applicants be at least twenty three years old, but less than
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History of the FBI The Federal Bureau of Investigation was founded in 1908 when the Attorney General appointed an anonymous force of 34 Special Agents to be investigators for the Department of Justice. Before that, the DOJ had to borrow agents from the U.S. Secret Service. In 1909, the Special Agent Force was renamed the Bureau of Investigation, and after countless name changes, it became The Federal Bureau of Investigation in 1935. When the FBI was established, there weren't an abundance of federal crimes, so it investigated criminal acts that dealt with national banking, bankruptcy, naturalization, antitrust, peonage, and land fraud. In June of 1910, the FBI grew larger because of the "Mann Act" (Made it a crime to transport women to other states for immoral reasons).
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Gaining an in-depth knowledge of the criminal justice system, throughout my Bachelors program has been exciting as much as an eye opener. Some of the subjects were ones that I did not expect. There were also, ones that had no idea how ignorant I was on the subject.
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Law enforcement is a career that is both violent and rewarding in many capacities. Justice needs to be served in law enforcement and they have a responsibility to uphold the law and serve the people in the community. Law enforcement is crucial in the world today as a global realm as life continues to be more complex and law enforcement struggles to combat many aspects of crime. In order to combat these problems and have a positive future in the criminal justice system, everyone must work together on a bigger scale.
Today our world is filled with crime. The people committing these crimes must have a consequence for their illegal actions. The system in place to keeping everything fair and safe is called the criminal justice system. This was put in place to ensure there is fairness and justice served to people who break the laws set up by the government.
Each of these criminal justice professionals keeps the criminals off the street or discovers ways to return them to society. Criminal justice professionals must be able to work with your mind and help protect the rights of others. The roles, responsibilities, and various career opportunities within these fields are vital to serving societal needs.
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Anyone in this career field will have the training to know what to do in any situation. Also depending your position will determine in which situations you will be called upon to handle.It will benefit the person going into this career field to seek for more than the training provide for their position. This career offers so many great advantages to learn new and improved ways to handle situations without using force or brutality against people. More benefits this field offers is getting to see parts of the community that aren 't really talked about or seen on a daily basis. Also getting to meet people with different stories and backgrounds. Overall, this career benefits in ways that will open one 's understanding of communities, methods of safety and in tragic
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is a law enforcement agency used by the United States’ government. The FBI has been solving cases since 1908, and has been a world leader in crime solving since then. The FBI uses a ton of different ways to solve a case and a lot of them include math. It uses math to solve cases by using statistics to make predictions about a case, special angles when shooting a gun, using geometry when making a geographical area to search in, and pattern recognition to find a place where a criminal might strike.