A Comparative Study of Criminal Justice Major Students

The plain probes the percepts of malefactor justness major. In essence, the study aims to determine if the formal educational background of a criminal justness major is a decisive factor in the shaping of an individuals intelligence of the criminal nicety system as comp ared to those who do not make up any.Students from the university were sampled to serve as the respondents for the study who were divided into two groups criminal umpire majors and non majors. The studys assumption was in that location is no signifi lott difference between the perception of the criminal evaluator majors and non majors.Chapter I IntroductionOver the years, studies have been made to shed light on the return key of criminal justness as perceived by the world-wide public and by the criminal justice majors. The perception of the general pubic and the criminal justice majors, of course, differs in a lot of aspects.Logically, non criminal justice majors or the public importantly hope on the m ass media for the information that they need objet dart the criminal justice majors have a broader background on the issue of crime and criminal justice.Criminal justice majors are usually open(a) with researches that would explain phenomena in the field of criminal justice. Thus, in that respect is a definite difference between the perception of the criminal justice majors and the public (Tsoudis, 2000).But then, an preliminary study is needed to pull ahead back up this claim. Does the education background of the criminal justice majors has something to do with their perception of crime and criminal justice?How can this educational background of the criminal justice majors would eventually influence or make a motion the perception of the general public? How influential can the media be in shaping the publics perception of crime and criminal justice?These questions are only few that have to be answered to levy that the claims of the previous studies are valid and logical.The media has also been the main source of information among the public. Undeniably, groups of people mainly deposit their notion and perceptions over things on the information that they emaciate provided by the media.There have been debates over the influence of the media and its leaning to veer away from truth. Some media outfits are punishable of exaggerating news items especially those dealing with crimes for the simple earth of getting a controversial scoop or because they have doing it unconsciously.Nadler (2005) writes, Such media play can counteract the publics perception of the legitimacy of uprightness enforcement generally. This loss of legitimacy and distrust of the fairness of the intelligent system, can in turn lead to to a large(p)er extent widespread honorbreaking.Connie McNeely (1995) writes that most of what Americans understand about law enforcement comes from what they view in the media, mainly television and movies.Aside from these media experiences, umte en Americans do not have the first sight knowledge of the inter-workings of border patrol or general law enforcement at the community level.True enough, media have the great role of shaping the minds of its audience.Because her insights are somewhat out-of-date in this day and age of television shows the likes of CSI and 24, it would be interesting to carry out further study of this idea. Still her study warrants close testing as she furthers her argument by writing