Personal Narrative: A Career In Forensic Psychology

I currently have an Associate degree in Criminal Justice and have attended Professional Military Education (PME) courses in Security Forces Apprentice and Security Forces Leadership courses. Moreover, I was selected to attend the MWD Handler and Kennel Master/Trainer courses at Lackland Air Force Base (AFB) Texas. I have also attended the Non Commissioned Officer Academy Management Course at Petersen AFB, Colorado that enhanced leadership capabilities. Lastly, I was selected to attend Yuma Joint Forces Regional K9 Training with U.S. Marine/Navy in Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona in preparation for combat mission in

In this exposition, 3 girls were tied up against their will and drowned in Tampa Bay. Forensic anthropologist and autopsy reports came back that they had been in the ocean for about three days, but weren’t deposited off the shoreline, they were driven out into the middle of the bay and thrown out. The investigator says it wasn’t a murder, but an execution.. Investigators went out and asked near them, where the father and the husband of these girls had been during the time these girls had gone missing. Furthermore, they went looking for the mother’s car and found notes in her vehicle, they found a note that had directions to the hotel also the boat ramp 25 miles from the boat ramp. They sent the notes to a forensic handwriting analysis, the

1. Whenever I was younger I had always heard “Not all heros wear capes” and I did not understand the significance of this phrase until I got interested in the law enforcement field. I saw men and women that wear blue put their lives on the line to keep us safe every single day. I became so passionate about the law enforcement field that my mother would always catch me watching investigation murder mysteries or shows like “Cops”. My interest only grew more and more as I got older. I would always try to comprehend why criminals would murder, steal and try to bring so much evil into the world. It is my goal that someday I would be one of these heros without a

My interest in Criminal Justice began around the ages of 11 and 12 years old. I was really fascinated by any television show that involved the criminal justice system. I consumed a lot of my time watching shows such as In The Heat Of The Night, New York Undercover, and Law and Order SVU, just to name a few. As a child I would debate with my fellow peers, especially when I found a topic that I was very passionate about. For a moment, the plan was to become a lawyer. As I grew older, those plans had changed. By the time I had graduated high school, I had chosen a different path.

Starting off the semester I wasn’t even sure I wanted to go into the criminal justice field and if I did what I would be doing in it. I’ve always been the type of person who has wanted to dedicate my time towards helping people and improving the world we live in. After taking this course I’ve really thought a lot about my future and what I’m going to be doing for a career. I decided to go into the police field. After deciding this I interviewed a retired cop that made his way up to chief of police.

I have been interested in a career in law enforcement, such as a police officer, for a long time. I included this career on my list, but as I identified myself, it became clear it wasn’t the most fitting option. This career fit very well with all my extrinsic and intrinsic values, but not as well with my lifestyle values. The location and hours could be challenging. My skills were not fitting either, i’m not very social and a police officer must communicate well.

My other career is law enforcement; I have twenty-five years with the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police Department. I did eight years as a narcotics detective and realized while reading the Ugly American that I used many of the same SOF Imperatives during some of my investigations. In one particular situation, I was the lead detective for the 4th and L Crew investigation. They were a local drug crew that controlled a three-block area in the city and the citizens living in the area. Unless there were uniformed officers physically in the area, this crew owned that area and the innocent citizens that lived there. Of course, the local citizens lived in such fear they would not openly help law enforcement.

You simply can’t call the police on such matters as this. The police deal with people and their sins. Ronnie Levinson and his friends were not people. They may have been at one time but they were not anymore. These matters would only result in the deaths of countless officers. I had begun to explain all this to the young father but all he did was continue to stare at me muted. I went on explaining to him that what we were dealing with here was pure evil, members of Satan’s army. And we, as loyal soldiers of the army of God had a duty to defend our house of the Lord and its members in our community.

For once in my life I may as well tell the truth. You would think as a seventeen year old applying to college I could unscramble my thoughts into somewhat of a cohesive manner. Maybe the truth is I am not the individual I want to be. Maybe my entire life my actions have not been entirely my own. Ever since I was young I have allowed other people’s opinions and expectations influence me. That is supposed to be a good thing, right? Well in my case I let those influences completely take over me and tell me who I should be. I suppose that is why I am so indecisive. It is probably why I am such a good listener. I have always been in the background so vulnerable to the noise. I can never differentiate between something I have done being because of

Following my examination of the bullet holes, I went to the station where I would place the tip of all ten of my fingers on the wet, black ink pad and roll each finger from one side to another in the designated square on the paper. I watched as the woman wrote my name on the top of the paper that now had my fingerprints. Little did I know this would become my future.

Participating in the 2016 Student Basic Jailor Academy will get me what I have been praying for all this year. This opportunity will basically get my “foot-in-the-door” to my future career aspirations and goals. I plan on being a forensic psychologist. If I get into this academy, it will push me forward into the world of criminal justice that I so very much longed to be in since I was a child. Making it through the academy will then help find a job that may coincide with my future career plan of being a forensic psychologist. Afterwards, I will have some experience that will help me further my education at my dream graduate school, the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. I have been praying, and working hard, just for this very opportunity

Justice I and II. In his class, he held a mock trial in which each student had to present a lawful plea and convince him to approve the plea. I was assigned a plea for a change of venue, which is when the jury is changed in order to have a more fair and less biased trial without the prejudice of the jury.

The Detective had apprehended and interviewed enough rapists and violent criminals to be able to mirror their moods and aggression without a second thought. In fact, if it hadn't been for his usual business attire and lack of shackles, observers through the one-way glass of the police interview room would often-times have been hard-pressed to guess which was the criminal, and which the Officer of the Law. As a method actor would do, Tom transformed into the character he was to play, on the journey home, and convinced himself that what Lila desired was to be fucked, used and treated like a common gutter-whore. Wasn't that a fantasy that existed in the recesses of every woman's mind, even if at all other times, they wished to be treated as equals, and with respect?

Geoffrey Rivlin stated: “Laws form the framework in which [people use] to live their lives.” As suggested by this quote society could not successfully exist without laws that protect the people’s rights and ensure justice. The topic of criminal law has always interested me as growing up the only aspects of law that was available to me were documentaries and cases revisited in the news. The most significant case that initially pushed me to pursue a career in law, specifically criminal law was the Andrea Yates case. This case was especially heinous to me due to articulate nature of the murders she committed and the senselessness of her heinous act. This has pushed to wanting to understand the individual aspects of crimes, specifically the extent to which defence lawyers are able to interpret and present laws to

When I was around 13 years old I took a sudden interest in the psychopathology. The idea that someone would be capable of committing gruesome acts along with murder fascinated me. I needed to know how their brains operate, and how they hardly feel any remorse. Unfortunately there was barely any research that could prove any kind of proper link between bran structure and the psychopathic behavior. This was the first thing that caught my attention in the field of psychology. As the time went by my interest in psychology augmented, and after I took psychology classes at Harvard I knew that it was the career I was born to pursue.