Something For Everyone in Police Volunteering
With the prospect of obtaining a job after university seeming increasingly challenging, especially in careers like the police, volunteering and work experience are becoming much more important both for students and for criminal justice agencies. Incidentally, the increased demand in criminal justice agencies for volunteers means increased variation for opportunities! In my last blog […]
Is it About Who You Know? – Becoming a Police Volunteer
The phrase ‘It’s about who you know’ can sometimes seem synonymous with securing work in criminal justice jobs, especially if that job is in the police. As someone myself with no natural ties to the criminal justice system, it would have been easy to believe that entering this world was far too difficult. Similarly, the […]
Trumping the Brexit Card
Well what a year it has been in Western politics! Following the Brexit vote in the UK to begin the process of leaving the European economic community the levels of hate crimes in the UK sharply increased in a rapid and worrying trend. To this point, these figures have not yet returned to the levels […]
Societies for Criminology
Joining a society is definitely one of the best opportunities at university. What’s great is that you can continue an old hobby, explore new ones, make like-minded friends, and by joining a committee, have the chance to take on a leading role and boost your experience in any area of responsibility that most interests you, […]
Front Line or Behind the Scenes?
One of the major questions when pursuing a criminal justice career is: do you want to be front line or back office? Both come with their own connotations and assumptions. Maybe front line is more exciting but also more challenging, more demanding, and maybe even scarier while back office may be more stable but ultimately […]
Meeting an Ex-Police Analyst
I have spoken a lot in previous posts about my volunteering position with Trading Standards this summer and I’m here to write yet another to highlight the breadth of opportunities that come with an experience like this. Trying to secure a volunteering placement (let alone a job) is hard, I won’t lie to you. […]
Volunteering in Criminal Justice
In my last post, I spoke about the Criminal Justice Fast Track, which the University of Leicester offers to students wishing to obtain work experience in the criminal justice sector. It’s an amazing opportunity which both guides the process of obtaining work experience and provides recognition for what you learn from your experiences. As competition […]
Prison Visits and Unmissable Experiences – Criminal Justice Fast Track Award
Criminal Justice Fast Track is a unique and wonderful opportunity offered by the University of Leicester. The award is designed to enhance students’ experience of work in the criminal justice system and it’s fantastic for your own personal sense of achievement and experience, enhancement of the Criminology degree, and for future employment prospects! Work experience […]
Why Criminology Anyway?
When I was younger, so much younger than today … I did an undergraduate degree in Geography and Sociology, I was interested in the spaces people inhabited and how societies acted as they did. I did a Criminology and Psychology degree because I wanted to know how people thought and why only some committed crime. In […]
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