1. School of Criminology, Criminal Justice, and Emergency Management
Internship Orientation

2. Outline Administration & Enrollment Info Internship Details
Objectives
Behavior
Professionalism
Sexual harassment
Internship Credit Requirements
You are an active observer!
Daily log
Journal Entries
The Paper

3. Administration & Enrollment Info.

4. 4 Senior Integrative Experience Options
CRJU 492 Internship Option:
130 hours at internship site, 25 page paper, weekly journal entries, and a log
Independent Study Option:
CRJU497 (25-page paper) AND
400-Level Course (20-page paper)
Experiential Learning Option:
400-Level Course (25-page paper) AND
405, 423, 430, 440, 441, 470, or travel course (25-page paper)
Research & Thesis Option:
CRJU497 & CRJU498 (50-page paper)

5. Internship Coordinators
Ron Mark
Professor Mark will help you with placement questions
Brenda Vogel
Professor Vogel will help you with enrollment questions

6. Deadline Dates Spring Semester 2016 Summer Session 2016
Begins January 19, 2016
Deadline to enroll in 492 January 5, 2016
Summer Session 2016
Runs May 23 – August 12, 2016
Deadline to enroll in 492 is May 9, 2016
Fall Semester 2016
Begins August 22, 2016
Deadline to enroll in 492 is August 8, 2016

7. Forms and More Forms! Print out and read: Submit Today:
CJ Internship Handbook
Submit Today:
Handbook Agreement Form (p. 17 of hb)
Internship Student Checklist (p. 16 of hb)
Submit once you have an internship:
Internship Enrollment Data Form and Learning Agreement
Self-Placed Internship Form
All are available on the website!

8. Forms and More Forms! Signed and completed forms may be:
Scanned and sent as an attachment.
Original forms must then be mailed or delivered
Mailed
Send me an notification when mailed.
Placed in my department mailbox.
Send me an notification when delivered.

9. Forms and More Forms! Email: Snail Mail brenda.vogel@csulb.edu
School of Criminology, Criminal Justice and Emergency Management
California State University, Long Beach
1250 Bellflower Boulevard
Long Beach, CA 90840

10. Finding an Internship site
It is the student’s responsibility to locate an internship site but Professor Mark is here to help!
See the list of agencies in the Internship Handbook
Consider your career interests in choosing a site
Start early; background investigations can take months to complete!

11. Enrollment
Once you have secured an internship and have sent in the necessary forms, you will be issued a permit to register for 492.
You must then register for the class!
The permit does not register you!
You will be assigned to a specific faculty member to whom you will submit your work and who will assign your grades for CRJU492.

12. Internship Details

13. Objectives
Gain firsthand knowledge of the organization and the political, social, and/or community forces that influence its structure and procedures.
Connect what you see and learn at the site with what you learned in class.
Engage in field research as a participant observer. These observations will be the basis of your final paper.
Determine whether or not you would like to work in this area!

14. Behave yourselves! You represent the School and the University!
Dress, speak, and behave like adults!
Be on time!
Ask your site supervisor about the norms of the agency and then go above and beyond!
If you goof around, then you will damage the relationships we have with internship sites so no goofing around!

15. Be Professional!
Confidentiality – Do not reveal the identity of clients or any information that would uncover their identity without written permission form the client.
Competency – Know and acknowledge the limitations of your abilities to assist clients/the public.
Accept that some situations are beyond your experience so seek assistance from your site supervisor and/or staff personnel.

16. Be Professional!
Corruption – Interns must not become involved in any illegal operations, activities, or any violation of laws.
Respect Clients - Interns are obligated to treat all clients with dignity, respect, and equality.
Integrity - You may see unethical or illegal activities as you intern; they may be realities in the organization, but you should not condone or accept them.

17. Be Professional!
Misconduct – As an Intern you have an obligation to avoid misconduct. You may encounter ethical gray areas which present conduct dilemmas such as:
Acceptance of free or discounted meals
Receipt of merchandise at a discount rate
Acceptance of gifts
Use of confidential information for private gain or to impress peers
Accessing mail, , copiers, computers, and other services for personal use

18. Be Professional!
Interpersonal Relationships – it is unethical for interns to become sexually or romantically involved with organization employees and/or clients during the duration of the internship experience.

19. Be Professional!
If you don’t know what the right thing to do is, ask yourself these questions:
Are my actions legal?
Am I being fair and honest?
What would my mom and dad say?
How will I feel about myself afterwards?

20. Sexual Harassment Sexual harassment includes:
Demanding sexual consideration in exchange for a job benefit
Making unwelcome sexual advances including pressure for dates, stalking, love letters, or phone calls
Creating a hostile work environment that including pranks, jokes, or comments of a sexual nature, or allowing sexually explicit posters and magazines to be kept in general work areas.
Sexual harassment is illegal!
You should contact your site supervisor, your internship professor, and/or the internship coordinator immediately if you witness or are the victim of sexual harassment

21. Internship Credit Requirements
While at your internship site, you are an observer and student first and a “worker” second!

22. Be an Observer!
The minute you enter your internship site, you take on the role of a participant-observer
A participant-observer is someone who works in and studies a particular environment, the people, and events within that environment.
You are a participant observer first and an employee second.
You should observe and study your surroundings, the people, and the activities that are occurring objectively.
Leave your biases and assumptions at home!

23. Journal Entries
You will be required to keep and submit weekly journal entries.
The journal entries will be graded and will be worth about 30% of your final grade.
Pay attention to the rubric!
Journal entries are the expanded notes based on your field notes (short notes) that you take at the internship site.
Set aside time every week to review, organize, and expand your field notes. You should do this as soon as possible after each shift.
Each journal entry should be at least 3 pages in length

24. Journal Entries Journal entries should include:
Date and time of activities
Detailed descriptions of people, place, behavior, mood, environment, etc.
Changes in work assignments or new information
Thoughts, insights, or ideas you have about how what you see and do is related back to what you learned in class.
Specific issues and problems you encounter during your internship

25. Journal Entries
You should have been introduced to participant observation and field research in your research methods course.
Consult the following book available on-line and on the internship page of our School website:
Mack, N., Woodsong, C., MacQueen, K.M., Guest, G., & Namey, E. (2005). Qualitative research methods: A data collector’s field guide. Family Health International: Research Triangle Park, NC.
Focus primarily on Module 2 - Participant Observation

26. Journal Entries
Your journal entries will make up the bulk of your final research paper.
During the course of your internship, consider in what direction you want to take your final paper.
Internship site: police department
Possible paper topics:
Police-citizen interactions
Hierarchical management style
Police “culture”
Use of technology
Factors that affect agency morale

27. Journal Entries
You may interview co-workers, clients, supervisors, community members, etc. in order to gather additional data for your final paper.
Review Module 3 in the Woodsong, et. al. on in-depth interviewing
Results of the interviews should be submitted in addition to a journal entry

28. The Final Paper
You will be required to submit a page final paper in which you:
Identify your research problem
Provide a literature review
Outline the methodology used (Participant observation and maybe interviews)
Provide the results of your research
Pay CLOSE attention to the paper template and the paper rubric. Both are posted on the School website.
The final paper will be worth at least 30% of your final grade

29. Daily Log
You will be required to keep a daily log of the hours you work. It needs to be signed, every time you work, by your site supervisor.
You will hand this in to your faculty supervisor at the end of your internship
It will be graded

30. Site Supervisor Evaluation
You will be required to have an evaluation of your work completed by your site supervisor.
You will be evaluated on:
Professionalism
Ethical behavior
Critical Thinking
Evidence-Based Practice
Performance
You will hand this in to your faculty supervisor at the end of your internship
It will be graded and it counts for 30% of your final grade!