Personal Statement

I am Aminat Tosin Alege by name, I am currently a teacher teaching English

Language and Accounting at Laro Grammar School, Osogbo, Osun State of
Nigeria.

I intend to study Criminal Justice at Bachelor level at the prestigious

University of Bridgeport, careers based around criminology play an essential
part in everyday society, both protecting and stabilizing communities and all
who reside in them, and over the past few years it has become apparent to me
that this is a subject I find both intriguing and compelling.

I picked an interest in Criminal Justice and crime prevention during my

teaching career in an high school and I set out to make my career goal to
become a Criminal Justice professional. Hence, my basic reason for my decision
to pursue a Criminal Justice Bachelor’s degree and this has been a part of my
plans for the future and will become one of my core focuses that I will set up in,
even in my graduate studies. This will also enable me to become a more
competent working professional and encourage me to advance towards the
doctoral program.
As I said earlier, my passion for Criminal Studies started back to when I am still
teaching in the high school. One of my student, a low class individual was
unfortunately assaulted by a juvenile criminal one hot afternoon, he was
mercilessly beaten and put behind the bar despite the fact that he was the one
that was assaulted just because the parents of his fighter was rich and famous.
We (teachers) rally round to secure his freedom. He was later released and
transferred to the nearest hospital for urgent medical attention; however he
died shortly after from his injuries due to a major loss of blood. It was my first
major experience that boosts my interest in Criminal Justice and from then on I
have it in mind to pursue the course.

During my undergraduate Criminal Justice studies, I will endeavored to further

my knowledge and understanding up to the more advanced levels and achieved
an outstanding result. As I will started my CJ studies in 2024, I hope to became
preoccupied by the systematic trainings that I received in the criminological
theories, crime correction, and the relevant laws. I will be keen to study for this
particular program because I understood how this knowledge can be utilized to
reduce and prevent crime to benefit the lower classes of different communities.
These experiences will help me to build up a solid foundation to carry out
higher-level research in the Masters and PhD levels.

My intention is to finish my studies and come back to Nigeria in order to use my

already earned knowledge to help the poor as an human rights advocate, The
oppression is too much in the land.

I will be very glad if my application for admission is favourably considered.

Thank you.

Alege Aminat Tosin