Makenzie Hendrickson

Knowledgeable student with solid understanding of litigation documentation, client relationship building and court procedures. Currently pursuing degree in Criminal Justice. Eager to support legal team with research, documentation and investigative skills.

Carl S. Hallauer Endowed Scholarship Fund for Criminal Justice

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Constitutional law and rights, Monroe Community College

- Constitutional framework and amendments, study historical context and significance of constitutional documents.

-Separation of powers, the checks and balances system and how it maintains the balance of power throughout the government.

- Fundamental rights and liberties, historical developments of our rights outlined in the constitution, as well as landmark cases that have shown limitations and restrictions on our rights.

- Dual process and Equal protection, procedural and substantive aspects of due process, ensuring fair treatment and protection of individual rights.

Introduction into Criminal Justice, Monroe Community College

- Understanding of the the Criminal Justice structure and components of the system.

- Engage in real-world examples, and case studies.

- Develop research and critical thinking skills.

Communication and crisis, Monroe Community College

- Develop ability to determine state of crisis and risk level.

- Learn how to approach and correctly converse people in different different states of crisis.

- Act out a simulated therapy session with a subject, and correctly determine risk level and develop a plan in real time.

Criminal Evidence, Monroe Community College

- Introduced to the fundamental concepts and principals, further developing legal research abilities and an understanding in evaluating and presenting evidence in criminal cases.

- Exploring the different types of evidence that can be presented in a criminal case, as well as the admissibility.

- Study Federal Rules of Evidence or relevant state rules, along with the exceptions to these rules.

Criminal Law, Monroe Community College

- Learning the ins and outs of the NYS Penal Law book.

- Understanding how to cite a correct charges for the case at hand, and understanding levels of specific charges.

-learning possible defenses for specific crimes, and how they may change the case outcomes.

Juvenile justice, Monroe Community College

- Understanding how the law changes for minors.

- Learning about the history of rehabilitation and punishment.

- Exploring how family history, wealth, and mental health, play a part in juveniles criminal acts.

Professional ethics in criminal Justice, Monroe Community College

-Acknowledging the different ethical approaches to criminal justice through history.

- Reading and interpreting cases that developed around ethics and the criminal justice system.

-Exploring how the ethics in criminal justice looks today.

Criminology, Monroe Community College

- What psychological factors lead people to commit crimes.

- Examining crime in different places of economic status, and how that effects crime.

- Understanding statistics, as well as biological and psychological factors to crime.