David Gray
DB-1
CJUS-230
3-21-14

Why is competent communication so important in the field of Criminal Justice? Many of the criminal justice professions require strong written and oral communication skills. The reason for this is for the fact that they are professions and first impressions matters. I know that for instance a high ranking official, judge or maybe a politician. You would need to look at it that these high ranking officials will be reviewing what your write. I couldn’t imagine what I would do if I had a high ranking official come up to me and point out that it was hard to read what I had wrote. I feel that it would be embarrassing. Just imagine the impression you would leave on yourself for a poorly written document.

Let’s look at police officer and investigators. What if they had written a poorly worded document or badly written report could mean that a criminal being brought justice or actually going free, because of the poorly organized report. In many cases state and district attorneys will not prosecute defendants if the arrest report is flaw with errors. Reports really need to be well organized and to convey your train of thought. If they fail to get your point across then they have not served any purpose and your efforts would be wasted. Let’s also look at the media attention that you would get with a poorly written report and how it would look if the defendant in the case was freed due the poorly written in organized report.

So communication is vital in all we do, especially when it comes to Criminal Justice. You want to make sure that your thoughts are clearly conveyed in your reports so that it gives the receiver a clear message of what you want to convey.

So as the passage conveys 2 Peter 1:20, "Knowing this first that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation." Even we as Christian’s really need to make