The Importance Of Communication In Criminal Justice

My area of study is Communication with a minor in Criminal Justice. I am currently the Communications Chief in the Unites States Marine Corp, and communication is a huge part of my everyday workload. The use of primary and secondary sources is very critical at times when completing certain duties. I am in hopes of incorporating my years of Communication experience with Criminal Justice to hold a successful career in the law enforcement field. Primary sources of information or data are those that have not been interpreted, analyzed or evaluated. It is a type of information that is in its original form. The way it was captured or recorded is the way that it is stored. For criminal justice, primary sources are important in following
up a situation especially if it happened at the scene, place or area where the primary information was collected. The various examples of primary information include census, diaries, and firsthand accounts of events, autobiographies, technical reports, and original documents such as transcripts, magazine articles that report exact happenings, emails, and personal blogs among other recorded events as they happen. Primary sources also include recordings of videos, audio, photos, manuscripts, government publications, historical documentations, and artifacts. This type of information qualifies as evidence in courts as it accounts for happenings in different scenarios. Secondary sources of information or data have already been analyzed, evaluated, and interpreted by primary sources. These include textbooks, works of literature and article review, bibliographies, blogs, websites, journals and other analyzed, interpreted or evaluated sources. Secondary sources offer a much bigger picture and understanding of the primary information. Depending on the nature of assignment or topic that I am working on I may rely on primary or secondary sources while doing research. Sometimes, a combination of both is more useful.