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English: The overall purpose of a Criminology internship is to provide students with experiential background that will better inform a decision to pursue a career in criminal justice or related field. An internship can be a source of insight into the fit between a Student and a particular career track; learning about the field by actually doing some of the tasks it routinely requires of Professionals can give students a better feel for a profession or occupation than will merely reading about it. Internships Provide students with the opportunity to relate lessons learned in the classroom to actual, real-world situations and in that sense an internship serves the mission of the institution: to better teach students about the world that they will soon be entering as educated citizens. Finally, internships can result in a student's developing contacts among, and receiving mentoring and career advice from, professionals who are actually working in the field that is of interest to the student.