Criminal Justice

Journals

One to two full pages of journal are required and must be sent tothe internship director as an attachment to an email once a month. (This means 1-2 full pages double spaced.) Put only your name and the week # on the top and then write your journal. Do not discuss questions about due dates etc in the journal – those questions should be written in the email that you attach the journal entry to when you send it to me. The journal is intended for you to reflect about the issues/subjects raised during your internship and in discussions, and your reflections about them.

DO NOT WRITE A LOG OF YOUR DAILY ACTIVITIES. Write 1 to 2 pages each week about the significant issues/topics/themes that are raised for you in the process of performing your day to day activities. You must write about them in a reflective way. Try to fit your experiences into a broader perspective so that you can see the place of the organization within the broader criminal justice system and within the community within which it functions. You are looking for the meaning of the things you do and what others do in the organization within the context of the broader system.

• Journal Entry 1 – discuss in this first entry what the organization does, its mission, what tasks/roles you have been assigned for the semester, your goals for the semester, and what you anticipate for the semester, etc.
• Journal Entries 2 - 14 should discuss the issues/questions that arise for you after you complete your hours for each week. Ie are there any gender issues, race issues, policy issues, ethical issues, style of organizational practice, relationship with the community issues, relationship with particular areas/sub-communities issues, relationship with other cjs agencies, linkages to your CJ classes, questions raised etc. You will try to fit your experience into a broader perspective and reflect on how those issues/questions/observations fit into that broader perspective.
• Journal Entry 15 is a summary journal entry that discusses what you feel/think and your reflections about the whole semester's experience based on that broader perspective you have taken for the semester.
• KEEP A COPY OF ALL YOUR JOURNAL ENTRIES FOR YOUR OWN REFERENCE.

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