Criminal Justice Personal Statements Samples For Students

The organization of society is structured around particular systems. The legal system of a group or nation is dependent on many factors from diverse fields. Justice develops as a result of history, religion, culture, or necessity. In order to study the organization of justice among peoples, it is necessary to be informed of different theories of sociology, anthropology, and psychology. My bachelor’s degree in Communication from the University of California, San Diego, has prepared me for versatility in learning and through academic development I have discovered I am interested in studying law.

During my elective in Advanced Studies in ...

Throughout my life I have faced many challenges that took determination, perseverance, and discipline in order to overcome. During high school and throughout my undergraduate studies I dedicated myself to the ferocious sports of Kick Boxing and Mixed Martial Arts. Despite my successes that were built on hard work and devotion to self-restraint, unfortunately I suffered a traumatic injury to my knee and in the process shattered my patella, ruptured both the anterior cruciate and the medial collateral ligaments, and tore the cartilage of the meniscus. The recovery from this injury was brutal and I had to undergo four surgeries ...

I am a second-generation Cuban American and the first generation in my immediate family to attend and graduate from college as well as to pursue studies in Law School. I received my Bachelors degree in Marketing from the University of Florida with a minor in Mass Communications. In college I was a member of the Pre-legal Honor Society and held the position of advertising chair.

Whilst my degree was in marketing, law has always been a powerful interest of mine. The specific areas of law that interest me as of now are trial advocacy and litigation, I have witnessed many court proceedings, ...

The law is a two edged sword aimed at cutting the oppressed free while punishing the unjust. This is one of the maxims that I have believed in and that inspires me towards applying for the JD program. By applying for this program, I desire to equip myself with the power to bring this ‘sword’ closer to the oppressed. I believe that this course will help me represent my people better and also in making them aware of their rights according to the law. All this intrinsic motivation to undertake the law course is extrinsically supported by the fact ...

My country has recently become independent and despite its fast development and constant improvements, the country still lacks the fresh blood educated according to the Western democratic values that are still to be implemented in its legislation. To gradually substitute the Soviet past with the democratic present, our youth needs to study in the countries that are the cradles of the democracy.
For this reason, four years ago I took the Foundation course at HEFP, holding the conditional offer from the University of Warwick to study business law. Due to personal circumstances I was forced to continue my ...

Personal Statement

I have always been a determined person and always tried my best to accomplish my goals. Despite the fact that achieving goals brings satisfaction, my achievements have always made me aim even higher. Ever since I was young, I have always yearned to study at the Boston University. When I was to begin my undergraduate education, I applied to this institution and my application was accepted. However, due to financial constrains at that time, my family could not afford to facilitate my education at the university. I had to resort to other options, but promised myself that I would work ...

Beyond Freedom and Dignity by B.F. Skinner is a challenge to deeply held beliefs regarding the autonomous nature of humans. Skinner, being one of the founding fathers of the behavioral movement reduces most human activity to a function of social living. Behaviorism has a distinct advantage over other psychological schools insofar as it’s hypotheses can be tested using the scientific method, and observation of objective behavior over subjective thoughts. While primary using rats as his experimental models, Skinner extrapolated his findings to human behavior to create a theory that promoted social conditioning on mass scale in order to create social control.
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Personal Statement

I am one of the few Saudi women have graduated from law school in my country predominantly patriarchal. Reflecting on my social and educational experience, I appreciate the immeasurable impact of equal justice to all. As a Saudi woman, I have experienced injustice and discrimination firsthand due to my gender. Despite having attained the legal adult age, the system prohibits me from doing basic things such as studying, working or even acquiring a passport without permission from my father and or husband. My legal practice also suffered setbacks due to these backward cultural norms that prohibit interaction with fellow male lawyers. ...

Personal Statement

Personal Statement
Since childhood, I have always kept abreast with major developments across the world. However, I had a bias for topics in relation to human rights, especially topics related to the underprivileged in the society at large. The desire to champion for the rights of the underprivileged is one of the primary reasons I decided to pursue law. My pursuit of law is not only an economic endeavour but also a spiritual endeavour. I believe an LLM will heighten my participation and professional impact on the world. I am motivated and highly focused on obtaining an LLM.
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As the first person to graduate from college in my family, I chose to vary slightly from the norm. I’ve always been something of an overachiever, throwing myself into the things I choose to do with definite zeal. I’ve always been passionately curious, so higher education always seemed like a logical choice for me. Pursuing that first Bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan wasn’t easy, but quitting was never an option that I entertained. I loved learning and Criminal Justice studies too much to ever truly consider quitting.
In addition to my extensive education ...

Objective

I desire an entry-level position serving as a Probation Officer or Probation Agent. I wish to utilize my education, background, and skills. I can bring a professional demeanor to the position.

Anticipated Graduation date 5/2013 Siena Heights University Adrian, MI
BA, Criminal Justice
Prerequisites Jackson Community College Jackson, MI
Experience
Probate Division Intern
- Assisted with the preparation of pre-sentencing reports.
- Reviewed the information on the backgrounds of individuals who were awaiting sentencing on convictions in district court.
- Reviewed case files to ensure compliance and ensured that the termination of probation recommendation ...

Personal Statement

Professedly, the death penalty debate is perhaps one of the most heated debates that are ongoing. Several valid agreements have been put forward in favor of death penalty just like a plethora of valid arguments have been put forward against death penalty. Taking the proponents side, I am strongly opinionative that death penalty should be upheld for various reasons.

It is indubitable that death is perhaps most dreaded occurrence to virtually every human being. In this regard, it can be stated that the best way to deter crime is by instilling the notion of death in people. Even as several ...

Personal Statement

In the past months, I have been working at the Gene Ramos law office as a legal assistant under the attorney’s office. Primarily, the firm focuses on wrongful termination and personal injury. The legal knowledge accrued from my studies has been instrumental in the cases I have been handling. Further, the guidance I receive from the attorney and the experience I have gained from resolving client’s legal matters continue to inspire me to achieve my dream of becoming an attorney, or as I now refer to as a guardian of the people and custodian of the law.

In position ...

The pursuit of justice, particularly in relation to Intellectual Property Law, made me choose to apply for the law program after school. I was determined this was going to be my area of specialisation. I am particularly interested in copyright and patents, as studying Intellectual Property Law during my Bachelors degree in Russia made me appreciate the issues surrounding copyright and the need for copyright and made me want to study how copyright can be protected. I have research experience in this area, as the theme of my Diploma was about ways to protect authors’ rights, and my final ...

Statement of Purpose

Throughout my adult life, there has been a constant and strong connection to Sociology and, in particular, the law. My professional life has seen an on-going theme of law enforcement and protection, which I have always seen Sociology as being supportive of. As my career progresses, it is becoming increasingly clear that I need to build upon my previous education to better meet the demands of my profession. Equally, it is a dream of mine to teach Sociology at university level and I see achieving my master’s degree as being the first stepping stone on that journey.
Prior to my ...

Personal Statement

“Sasha, ihre fahrt ist hier.” At my teacher’s demand, I ran from my seat with such enthusiasm that I have never experienced before, and left behind everything I owned. I raced to the parent pick up line where my mother stood eagerly waiting to inform me of what she thought was good news. My parents were in military, so I spent most of my early life apart from them as they relocated every three years. This day was not only peculiar in that my mother came to pick me up, but it was the last Thursday I would ...

a. Breadth and extent of experience planning, developing and managing a Legal office including monitoring a budget, reporting, personnel, purchasing, law library, archiving, and other functions critical to the success of the office.
I have been working as a resource manager in a successful department of transportation in California for over two years. I have been responsible for performing analysis and monitoring the Legal Division's budget and resources including personal services and operating expenses. My experience in this office is a primary qualification, and I am therefore capable of planning, developing, and managing any legal office. This includes performing ...

I am submitting my application to enter the Master in Criminology and Criminal Justice program to achieve an advanced understanding by learning how the criminal justice process operates. My interests lie in discovering how human behaviour can affect the application of law and how different strategies can be implemented when dealing with preventative techniques and the resolution they are meant to produce. I am very passionate about the study of Criminology as it has thus far challenged my extensive researching skills and enabled me to hone my critical thinking abilities. This field has also taught me the value of ...

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Personal Statement
As a consistently passionate learner, I have good academic standing. I completed my basic education at York Early College Academy, which an affiliated school of CUNY York College, and then obtained my undergraduate degree at CUNY York College. At age 17, I took high school classes along with college classes and then graduated with advanced regents’ diploma along with more than 50 college credits. At age 19, I obtained my bachelor’s degree and gave my former schools recognition, which was published in the news media. At hindsight, I am a highly motivated person who has eagerness ...

Personal Statement of Interest

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Becoming an attorney was never a professional path that I considered as a young girl growing up in Armenia. I spent the first 17 years of my life in a beautiful and ethereal Eurasian country that has the distinction of possessing a rich and diverse cultural history that predates to ancient times. In 2010, my family and I made the difficult transition of immigrating to the United States (U.S.). Suddenly, I was an Armenian teenager living in the fast-paced and cosmopolitan New York City, quite ...

I have always considered that the person who invented society was probably the greatest genius ever living on earth. Social norms, human relationships, communication, collaboration, progress, society, they are all part of a political system. Excepting the abstract concepts such as love, happiness or virtue, everything in the world, locally or globally, at micro level, or at macro level, is political. The dynamics and particularities of the international political scene fascinate me. It is with great interest that I follow the socio-political concepts integrated in the speeches or strategies of politicians or in the pleads and defenses of the lawyers. ...

The experiences I have had in my life have taught me important virtues that have not only given me more strength and vigor to pursue my dreams but also to cherish and respect the family unit and those who live around us irrespective of their socio-economic status. On a personal and professional note I’m a passionate individual with strong organizational skills and a positive attitude towards academic research, project management and community based programs and take great pleasure in volunteer programs with the aim of improving situations as they are. Involving and interacting with pertinent issues that affect the well being of ...

My interest in the Labor Studies program of this university stems from a lifetime of hard work and dedication, as I seek to fulfill my potential in my prospective career in labor studies. While my parents were poor, they were able to instill in me a strong work ethic and a passion to make the world around me a better place. Having grown up in an impoverished household with parents who did not have the resources for a proper education, I then also had to struggle with moving to a foreign country and learning how to speak English, after moving to Puerto Rico in 1997 without ...

My undergraduate education at Oklahoma State University has prepared me for whatever academic and professional challenges I may come by. At the outset of my academic career in Agribusiness, I had never imagined that I would find myself interested in studying Law. However, after a rigorous course load that touched on many issues of law, I became increasingly interested in the administration of power and concepts of sovereignty and jurisdiction. I also realized the ubiquity and necessity of agriculture to human endeavors and the benefit to development that large agricultural enterprises can bring. While some people view industrial farming and ...

It is important for an individual to be successful to have knowledge of different subjects and fields rather than only one. Moreover, working experience at the same field helps the individual in polishing and improving his skills. I have the knowledge in the field of finance and have working experience of working at different hierarchy in a financial institution, Bank Center Credit. However I have not restricted my knowledge to only this subject but have learnt other related subjects as well including Economics, Management, Business management etc. In addition to this, it is also significant for an individual to have ...

What qualities do you have that will make you a good accountant?

First and foremost, as an indigenous Chinese student, we have always been observed to be very good in numbers. As such, one of the qualities I possess that will make me a good accountant is my acumen to accuracy and details. I strongly believe that one of the basic responsibilities of a good accountant is the preparation of financial statements with accuracy and transparency – those which are in accord with the standards of professionalism. With my personal skills in adherence to ethical, moral, and legal standards, patients in all undertakings, diligence and commitment to doing what is right, I content that ...

Personal Statement

I am NAME SURNAME from PRESENT CITY, PRESENT COUNTRY. My intended major for NAME OF PROGRAM in NAME OF COLLEGE will be mathematics.
I have always been motivated to good education as I belong to a well- educated family. During my study in high school I was more interested in pure science i.e. math, physics, and chemistry. But my favorite subject in schools days was mathematics and I used to like to solve complex and challenging problems in mathematics and puzzles. Inclination to this subject was originated when I was kid and I used to be guided by my ...

I am a strong energetic man, student at Thomas M. Cooley Law School, a school that is popularly known for diligence of its students, and I am writing this personal statement in hope of joining U.S. Army JAG Corps in your esteemed military camp. Such career, I believe, is indispensible for my future fulfillment of my dream and will benefit me for the rest of my life.

I believe a better life especially as a U.S Army JAG Corp is all about working hard and aiming high. When I lastly made a decision of joining Western Illinois University in August 2006 to pursue Bachelor of ...