Process Essay: A Career In Criminal Justice

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A Career in Criminal Justice
Throughout my whole life I have had a passion for understanding the concept of people and the mysteries they hold. Criminal justice explores just that and brings justice to those families who have lost loved ones due to an action caused by an outrageous person(s). But what about this career sticks out from every other? Ever since I was little I have always wondered what drives people to take the actions that they do along with how certain crimes reflect the personalities of those people. Not only does the criminal part interest me, but the psychology aspect as well, pushing me to learn more than what was previously accounted for.
II. History of the career
Starting in 1908 when the Federal Bureau of Investigation sprouted to serve as another sector of investigation. Before the FBI was the FBI, it was initially the bureau of investigation coined by Attorney General Charles Bonaparte to investigate for President Theodore Roosevelt’s presidency. Without these men in the bureau of investigation, Charles Bonaparte would have had to use his secret service men. The bureau of investigation was renamed the Federal Bureau of investigation in 1935 and lead to a new job with different responsibilities and a broader job force.
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These men were FBI agents studying the traits of crimes and forming relationships between perpetrators and the evidence. “By about 1960,” Teten says, “I had developed a hypothesis that you’d be able to determine the kind of person you were looking for by what you could see at the crimescene.”(Ramsland). Teetan and Mullany used their hypothesis in an real life case and determined that the perpetrator knew the victim closely and was familiar with the area and ended up going door to door and found the suspect. This sprung the first case of criminal profiling and verified Teten and Mullany’s hypothesis to be