Criminology personal statement

Thinking about humanity nowadays and people's preoccupations made me realize the huge impact that crimes and criminal justice have on their decisions and the way they receive and react at the details and information about a crime.Television news, newspapers and magazines, they all speak about crimes, unsolved criminal problems or strange disappearances.The world's
evolution, its issues have pushed societies nowadays to extreme gestures to escape from poverty problems.Why do people commit crimes? How much crime is there committed around us?

Which would be the profile of a criminal and which would be his or her characteristics?Moreover, how could these crimes be stopped? I have been attracted to criminology since the early age of just 12. I was watching Discovery channel series like "Deadly women","Life of a crime", "Most evil" and I was fascinated by the way those people were investigating and solving those crimes helped by only some fragil and minor details.As time passed by, I realised that this was my hobby and so I started thinking how I could develop my skills for a career in criminology.I thought that if I entered an exact sciences high school profile,I would constantly keep my mind focused,as subjects like mathematics or informatics enlarge your vision .

As criminology implies psychology, I was and I am still interested in this fascinating subject.I will always be interested in discovering the characteristics of human nature.I had contact for the first time with Psychology in the second year of high school.I also read very interesting books about psychology and criminology such as "Psychology and Crime Myths and
reality", by Peter Ainsworth, "Criminology", by John Conklin, etc, describing its characteristics and feeding my curiosity. I have discovered myself a lot of skills after reading those books and this was an extra reason for me to attend to a Criminology course.

Besides criminology, I also like IT( information technology). As technology occupies a significant part of our lives, I thought it would be helpful to certificate my skills: I obtained my OCP certificate for ORACLE sql database course, I attended the ECDL (European Computer Driving Licence) courses from where I got a diploma as a complete operator of the Microsoft Office package. At present, I am attending the ORACLE pl_sql programming course which I am going to finalise in May 2009 and obtain my certificate.

Even though I have been focusing on my ambitious plans and my future, I haven't forgotten the ones that weren't so lucky when speaking about family's kindness and warmth. So, I was involved myself in volunteer projects every Christmas and Easter.The volunteer action is called National Strategy "The Community Action". In present, I intended a new strategy to help the mentally or physically affected children at the "Orizont" Center in my town, Constanta. In my opinion, abandoning you own child is a crime and if he or she has a handicap it is ten
times worse.

As I am a very active person, I also took part to a lot of extracurricular activities, like: general-knowledge quizzes, chemistry contests where I have participated with the project "Water crystals. Crystal therapy" and gained two prizes, I am part of the high school volleyball team with which I won a lot of regional and national competitions, I had a job as an IT operator for introducing and validating dates within the POL-RENAV company, etc.

Considering the fact that criminology is my hobby (terrorism, youth crimes, homicide, violence in crimes), it would be the perfect course for me to study and improve at university. Studying the behaviour of criminals or investigating their crimes will always create a challenging future and an interesting one, having always something new to learn. As a personal conviction, criminology is maybe the most complex job that one could want: it involves mental strength,
devotion and 100% interest for this field.

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