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The Evolving Criminal Justice Profession

For this assignment, you must

  • Describe two reasons that society needs the criminal justice profession. 

  • Analyze how the role of the criminal justice professional is changing or evolving when addressing the two social needs you identified above? 

  • Be sure to include any multicultural and/or diversity issues that are a part of your answers to the above questions. Also recommend solutions to the issues.

  • If you do not see any multicultural and/or diversity issues, please state that and explain why.

Keyword Search Suggestions

Some search phrases to try on the Find page or in ProQuest Criminal Justice (linked below) include:

  • evolving role of the criminal justice professional
  • criminal justice professional roles 
  • law enforcement response to social needs
  • "criminal justice system" "diversity concerns"
  • "law enforcement" "diversity concerns"
  • "criminal justice system" multiculturalism

The terms criminal justice and law enforcement may be used interchangeably.

Note: Using quotation marks tell the database to search the words together. You can use them in any combination to see varying search results. 


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