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Reflective Essay: Majoring In Criminal Justice

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Majoring in Criminal Justice Criminal Justice is known as the study of crime and criminals. Although it's not everyone’s first choice, before college I had always found this major very appealing but not really something that I wanted to major in. When I started thinking about college, at first I wasn’t interested in going so I looked into being an Au Pair in different countries, then I wanted to become a baker. I didn’t really see the point of going to school when I got bored with classes because nothing appealed to me. It wasn’t until after I had taken a CSI class that was offered at my high school, I started to become more interested in criminal justice. I finally had found a class that keeps my attention the whole time and is giving me …show more content…

Whether it was because they couldn’t see me in that kind of field or the fact that I never showed interest in school in the first place. Never mind the fact that when I finally decide that I wanted to go to college that I changed my attitude toward school becoming more focused and working hard. Along with focusing more on my studies I also started to work out more trying to get in better shape. But as time has placed my family still could see me in that field. Every time I came home after the end of a semester, my father would always ask if it was my major still or if I had finally changed it. I realized that in the future when I’m looking for jobs some people might not take me seriously at first glance, but I never thought that the people that had known me my whole life wouldn’t. But even over the years the criminal justice services have been gaining an increasing amount of different ethnic groups and females participating in my area of study. For example, police departments encourage and mentor female and minority youths to consider law enforcement careers (Brown). No matter what though I will have to prove myself in order to get the respect I deserve. So having to deal with my parents' denial is just pushing me to work even

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