Essay On Criminal Justice System
Today our world is filled with crime. People who tends to commits such crimes must have consequences for their illegal actions. “The Criminal Justice System,” is a system that keeps everything fair and safe. This system was set up in order to ensure that fairness and justice will be served to people who breaks that laws.
Deciding which career is best for you is a very difficult decision that one can make. There are so many different types and areas of studies to choose from.With that being said, I have a couple that I am interest in. Through my years, I would always look up to the characters that would appear in criminal shows such as; Ashley Johnson in Blindspot and David Caruso starring CSI: Miami. There was never a time where I would miss …show more content…
their shows when being pass on television. These two people were my inspiration. That's when I began realizing that I would like to major in criminal justice. People tend to have the “experience” when they see something on television they instantly say they want to become the career they're view. In reality, nowadays people career that they had in mind before are more likely to not be their career in a few years. As for me, criminal justice was just one of those things that I never lost interest in.
Crime scene detectives, also known as forensic science technician, practice crime scenes to collect, identify, classify, and analyze evidence. They use their knowledge of science and federal laws to solve crimes, but exactly what kind of science do they often use? Where do they get this knowledge from? The educational requirements for a crime scene investigator are vary depending on the college that one is planning to go and the aspect one is going towards criminal justice. Many crime scene investigation career requires a bachelor degree in either forensics or natural science. Since I’m going into forensics, I would be focusing on the human genetics and DNA. Because I would be working in a crime lab, I would need to complete DNA-analysis training, which can last for six to twelve months.
University Of Houston Downtown is the univesity I’m planning to attend. At UHD, the criminal justice department are designed to ensure that students that study in this field gains experience within a criminal justice agency while merging academics training. Since I am majoring in criminal justice the requirements that I would have to take in order to get my bachelor degree are; having a minimum of 120 hours, with at least 25% of those hours earned through UHD classes. A Twenty-four hours of upper level criminal justice classes, have thirty total hours in the university, and a minimum of eighteen upper level hours towards the degree that must be successfully completed at this university. Further, in the upper-level hours I would to have a minimum of thirty-six hours there and maintain a minimum grade point average of 2.0 in the major.
As my mind is primarily focus on becoming a successful CSI, the University of Houston has provided students that would like to study in criminal justice such as myself, a degree plan.
A degree plan is basically a schedule of your courses that you’re planning to take to in order to graduate. My degree plan is taking the required courses that are necessary to reach my bachelor of science. Striking for my degree it will include forty-two hours of Communication, Mathematics, Life & Physical Sciences, Language, Philosophy, & Culture, Creative Arts, American History, Government & Political Science, Social & Behavioral Sciences, and lastly Oral Communication. Along with my degree plan, I would have to take nine hours in English, Statistics, and Ethics & Morality, and twenty-one hours in criminal justice courses such as; Crime, Law, and Society, The Police System, The Criminal Court System, The Correctional System, Research Methods in Criminal Justice, Criminology, and finally Senior Seminar in Criminal Justice. As for my criminal justice electives I would also need twenty-one hours, twelve hours in supplemental concentration, and nine through fifteen hours in free electives. With this degree plan it will benefit me and other students that are going to study in criminal justice with strong advanced communication and analytical
skills.
In criminal justice, when evidence is available, the work that forensic scientists do to help out in crimes are very beneficial. For example, they can determine how, when, what sequence a crime was committed. Although there are several factors that are beneficial when solving a case, it all ties with science and math.
Most of the work that is being done in criminal justice involves analyzing, data collecting, and interpreting data. Because of these elements, many schools requires students to have a firm background in math before studying for their major in criminal justice. One of the most common requirements that for criminal justice course is statistics. Statistics let students to study research techniques and data analysis. Another common requirement for this major is calculus. Calculus is a useful tool in criminal justice because it focuses on evidence analysis, meaning that the rate of change due to stimuli or vehicle acceleration can be determined.
The science that is involved in criminal justice are the human genetics and DNA. The use of DNA evidence in criminal investigations has been useful throughout the year by helping the law enforcement solves difficult cases and identifying criminals. DNA, or deoxyribose acid, contains all the genetic information an individual has. Because DNA is unique to each individual person, law enforcement use DNA Fingerprinting to verify genetic information with the person that it came from. In order for scientist to analyze the DNA fingerprint, first the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) must occur, which is a technique for a faster synthesizing large quantities of a given DNA segment that involves, separating the DNA into two complementary strands, using DNA polymerase to form two stranded DNA from each single strand, once done they begin repeating the process over and over again.
A DNA fingerprint is similar to a regular fingerprint. Fingerprints from your hands/ fingers , DNA fingerprint can’t just be found by “dusting for prints” like they do on criminals shows. In order to find a DNA fingerprint, a lab technician has to first take the DNA out of the nucleus of the cell. The cell that is being used for DNA fingerprint can be a skin cell, a hair root cell, or even cheek cell that gets washed out throughout your spit. Due to this, DNA still remains the same throughout the cells. Once everything has occurred scientists begins to analyse the DNA to show the little differences of DNA in others. DNA profiling has its effectives in crime investigation. It can be use to determine family's relationship, detect inherited diseases, prove guilt or innocence, and identify a dead body. To determine a family’s relationship, DNA can help find out who a person’s parents or siblings are. How about detecting inherited diseases? Well genetic code can be tested to determine someone’s likelihood of getting certain disease. Also when proving guilt or innocence DNA left at the scene of a crime can be matched with a suspect and determine whether the person is guilty or not. Another way that DNA fingerprinting is useful is that technology is able to diagnose inherited disorders in adults, children, and unborn babies. The including that follow up with this are cystic fibrosis, hemophilia, Huntington's disease, Alzheimer’s, sickle cell anemia, and thalassemia.
Genetics fingerprinting has been helpful throughout the whole wide world in criminal cases. For example in 1986, a man named Colin Pitchfork, a suspect of murdering and rapping a young school girl. When being questioned repeatedly and integrated he wasn’t saying nothing but the TRUTH. Due to the fact that the detectives didn't believe a word that Colin was saying, he was sent to jail. Few years later a school girl named, Linda Mann was raped and murdered. The detectives thought it was the same man, but actually he wasn’t the one that committed the killing and rapping the schoolgirl so that’s when the fingerprinting came in. DNA fingerprinting was used in the criminal case for the first time.Since the detectives finally used the DNA Fingerprinting and after analysing the DNA it turns out that Colin didn’t commit the crime after all. So many cases occurred about accusing one another, sexual assault, murder, and many more used many methods to figure out the crime and all of them used at least the DNA fingerprint to see if it will help out by identifying a suspect or so. Out of the several cases out there they all use the DNA Fingerprinting to analyse suspects that were at the crime scene.
To conclude, with the research that I have done about my career, university, and the science that involves with criminal justice I can say that I have a pretty good understanding about later on in my career and future. Everything that comes with criminal justice as a major is a challenge no doubt about it, but it shouldn’t matter if it's a very difficult tasks or the struggles one have to go through. Challenges aren’t going nowhere, there a part of life, you have to grow up and overcome them in order to be successful. Any career that is available to the world in some type of way they all involve with science. Science is part of history whether its discovering something new or coming up with any new element science is all around us. Science impacts all of us in our lives. Science is not only dealt in criminal justice but also in nursing, doctors, astronomer and we, humans, make history each and everyday. We might not know it but becoming who we want to be is an exciting life experience that one fulfills.
Deciding which career is best for you is a very difficult decision that one can make. There are so many different types and areas of studies to choose from.With that being said, I have a couple that I am interest in. Through my years, I would always look up to the characters that would appear in criminal shows such as; Ashley Johnson in Blindspot and David Caruso starring CSI: Miami. There was never a time where I would miss …show more content…
their shows when being pass on television. These two people were my inspiration. That's when I began realizing that I would like to major in criminal justice. People tend to have the “experience” when they see something on television they instantly say they want to become the career they're view. In reality, nowadays people career that they had in mind before are more likely to not be their career in a few years. As for me, criminal justice was just one of those things that I never lost interest in.
Crime scene detectives, also known as forensic science technician, practice crime scenes to collect, identify, classify, and analyze evidence. They use their knowledge of science and federal laws to solve crimes, but exactly what kind of science do they often use? Where do they get this knowledge from? The educational requirements for a crime scene investigator are vary depending on the college that one is planning to go and the aspect one is going towards criminal justice. Many crime scene investigation career requires a bachelor degree in either forensics or natural science. Since I’m going into forensics, I would be focusing on the human genetics and DNA. Because I would be working in a crime lab, I would need to complete DNA-analysis training, which can last for six to twelve months.
University Of Houston Downtown is the univesity I’m planning to attend. At UHD, the criminal justice department are designed to ensure that students that study in this field gains experience within a criminal justice agency while merging academics training. Since I am majoring in criminal justice the requirements that I would have to take in order to get my bachelor degree are; having a minimum of 120 hours, with at least 25% of those hours earned through UHD classes. A Twenty-four hours of upper level criminal justice classes, have thirty total hours in the university, and a minimum of eighteen upper level hours towards the degree that must be successfully completed at this university. Further, in the upper-level hours I would to have a minimum of thirty-six hours there and maintain a minimum grade point average of 2.0 in the major.
As my mind is primarily focus on becoming a successful CSI, the University of Houston has provided students that would like to study in criminal justice such as myself, a degree plan.
A degree plan is basically a schedule of your courses that you’re planning to take to in order to graduate. My degree plan is taking the required courses that are necessary to reach my bachelor of science. Striking for my degree it will include forty-two hours of Communication, Mathematics, Life & Physical Sciences, Language, Philosophy, & Culture, Creative Arts, American History, Government & Political Science, Social & Behavioral Sciences, and lastly Oral Communication. Along with my degree plan, I would have to take nine hours in English, Statistics, and Ethics & Morality, and twenty-one hours in criminal justice courses such as; Crime, Law, and Society, The Police System, The Criminal Court System, The Correctional System, Research Methods in Criminal Justice, Criminology, and finally Senior Seminar in Criminal Justice. As for my criminal justice electives I would also need twenty-one hours, twelve hours in supplemental concentration, and nine through fifteen hours in free electives. With this degree plan it will benefit me and other students that are going to study in criminal justice with strong advanced communication and analytical
skills.
In criminal justice, when evidence is available, the work that forensic scientists do to help out in crimes are very beneficial. For example, they can determine how, when, what sequence a crime was committed. Although there are several factors that are beneficial when solving a case, it all ties with science and math.
Most of the work that is being done in criminal justice involves analyzing, data collecting, and interpreting data. Because of these elements, many schools requires students to have a firm background in math before studying for their major in criminal justice. One of the most common requirements that for criminal justice course is statistics. Statistics let students to study research techniques and data analysis. Another common requirement for this major is calculus. Calculus is a useful tool in criminal justice because it focuses on evidence analysis, meaning that the rate of change due to stimuli or vehicle acceleration can be determined.
The science that is involved in criminal justice are the human genetics and DNA. The use of DNA evidence in criminal investigations has been useful throughout the year by helping the law enforcement solves difficult cases and identifying criminals. DNA, or deoxyribose acid, contains all the genetic information an individual has. Because DNA is unique to each individual person, law enforcement use DNA Fingerprinting to verify genetic information with the person that it came from. In order for scientist to analyze the DNA fingerprint, first the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) must occur, which is a technique for a faster synthesizing large quantities of a given DNA segment that involves, separating the DNA into two complementary strands, using DNA polymerase to form two stranded DNA from each single strand, once done they begin repeating the process over and over again.
A DNA fingerprint is similar to a regular fingerprint. Fingerprints from your hands/ fingers , DNA fingerprint can’t just be found by “dusting for prints” like they do on criminals shows. In order to find a DNA fingerprint, a lab technician has to first take the DNA out of the nucleus of the cell. The cell that is being used for DNA fingerprint can be a skin cell, a hair root cell, or even cheek cell that gets washed out throughout your spit. Due to this, DNA still remains the same throughout the cells. Once everything has occurred scientists begins to analyse the DNA to show the little differences of DNA in others. DNA profiling has its effectives in crime investigation. It can be use to determine family's relationship, detect inherited diseases, prove guilt or innocence, and identify a dead body. To determine a family’s relationship, DNA can help find out who a person’s parents or siblings are. How about detecting inherited diseases? Well genetic code can be tested to determine someone’s likelihood of getting certain disease. Also when proving guilt or innocence DNA left at the scene of a crime can be matched with a suspect and determine whether the person is guilty or not. Another way that DNA fingerprinting is useful is that technology is able to diagnose inherited disorders in adults, children, and unborn babies. The including that follow up with this are cystic fibrosis, hemophilia, Huntington's disease, Alzheimer’s, sickle cell anemia, and thalassemia.
Genetics fingerprinting has been helpful throughout the whole wide world in criminal cases. For example in 1986, a man named Colin Pitchfork, a suspect of murdering and rapping a young school girl. When being questioned repeatedly and integrated he wasn’t saying nothing but the TRUTH. Due to the fact that the detectives didn't believe a word that Colin was saying, he was sent to jail. Few years later a school girl named, Linda Mann was raped and murdered. The detectives thought it was the same man, but actually he wasn’t the one that committed the killing and rapping the schoolgirl so that’s when the fingerprinting came in. DNA fingerprinting was used in the criminal case for the first time.Since the detectives finally used the DNA Fingerprinting and after analysing the DNA it turns out that Colin didn’t commit the crime after all. So many cases occurred about accusing one another, sexual assault, murder, and many more used many methods to figure out the crime and all of them used at least the DNA fingerprint to see if it will help out by identifying a suspect or so. Out of the several cases out there they all use the DNA Fingerprinting to analyse suspects that were at the crime scene.
To conclude, with the research that I have done about my career, university, and the science that involves with criminal justice I can say that I have a pretty good understanding about later on in my career and future. Everything that comes with criminal justice as a major is a challenge no doubt about it, but it shouldn’t matter if it's a very difficult tasks or the struggles one have to go through. Challenges aren’t going nowhere, there a part of life, you have to grow up and overcome them in order to be successful. Any career that is available to the world in some type of way they all involve with science. Science is part of history whether its discovering something new or coming up with any new element science is all around us. Science impacts all of us in our lives. Science is not only dealt in criminal justice but also in nursing, doctors, astronomer and we, humans, make history each and everyday. We might not know it but becoming who we want to be is an exciting life experience that one fulfills.