@article{ref1,
title="Why do criminology and criminal justice students choose their major? An examination of parental, personality, and other individual characteristics",
journal="Journal of criminal justice education",
year="2020",
author="Ridener, Rebecca and Kuehn, Sarah and Scott, Paul Wesley",
volume="31",
number="1",
pages="1-22",
abstract="A truism concerning college attendance is that the knowledge and experiences gained from it have the ability to change one's attitudes and beliefs. In regard to criminology and criminal justice (C&CJ) education, this has led researchers to assume that what separates the students majoring in this field from other majors is course work alone. Due to students self-selecting their major, however, any similarities found among C&CJ majors may simply be an artifact of them commencing college as a more homogenous group. The question then is whether or not C&CJ majors begin their college careers as a more likeminded group compared to their non-C&CJ counterparts. This paper addresses this question by surveying college freshmen from all academic fields. Specifically, it examines how C&CJ majors and non-majors differ at the start of their college careers in the areas of personality characteristics, parental demographics, TV show preferences, and reasons for selecting a major.<p />",
language="en",
issn="1051-1253",
doi="10.1080/10511253.2019.1650085",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10511253.2019.1650085"
}