Infosheet

Sample Criminal Justice Internships Outside of Law Enforcement

Issue link: https://resources.twc.edu/i/1296025

Contents of this Issue

Navigation

Page 1 of 1

Offender Aid and Restoration Reentry Employment Services Intern: support the employment services team in its mission to equip men and women returning from incarceration with the skills necessary to conduct a successful job search and rejoin the workforce. Some responsibilities: • Work one-on-one with reentry clients to create a professional resume or strengthen an existing one. • Support online job search sessions on Tuesday and Thursday evenings from 6-8pm (attendance is mandatory for these sessions). • Identify local job leads utilizing online services such as Craigslist, Snag a Job and Virginia Workforce Connection. D.C. Justice Lab Criminal Justice Advocacy Intern: have the opportunity to design an advocacy project focused on local policing reform, procedural justice reform or prison reform. Responsibilities may include: • Investigating the most urgent needs of District residents. • Researching legal, legislative, and community-based solutions. • Drafting issue briefs, model legislation, or other campaign materials. • Educating District leadership about each proposal. • Providing other administrative support (remotely). Department of Homeland Security* HSAC Intern: assist with updates, memo writing, research, etc. to support the Homeland Security Advisory Council in providing organizationally independent, strategic, timely, specific and actionable advice to the Secretary and senior leadership on matters related to homeland security. Strategic Engagement Intern: assist the Strategic Engagement Team, specifically, the Legislative Affairs function by tracking current legislation and updating team on major legislative movement; researching Members of Congress and their legislative priorities; and writing, reviewing and editing briefing materials for the Under Secretary for Management. Foundation for Defense of Democracies Design & Digital Intern: help with designing FDD branded materials, website editing, photography, audio/visual productions and the development of social media content and its corresponding strategy. National Juvenile Justice Network Policy Intern: support all of NJJN's activities, with a focus on researching current youth justice issues, helping to draft policy briefs on a variety of youth justice topics, researching and drafting information on state legislative advances and responding to requests for legislative support for state and federal youth justice bills. Coalition for Juvenile Justice Communications Intern: assist with the execution of projects to develop and manage the overall provision of email, web-based and social media communications with CJJ members and other key audiences. Other duties include data management and administrative/logistical support. * This is a federal position which requires a lengthy background check. Smoking pot is illegal at the federal level - if you have smoked pot within the last year, you will not pass the background check and will therefore not be cleared to be placed here. Placement Definitions Advocacy: describes a type of organization and not an internship role. Advocacy sites are organizations that work on a particular program or issue typically with a goal of changing a current policy or reality in the U.S. or the world. The day-to-day work at an advocacy site depends on the type of role that is available. Some examples of the roles available at advocacy organizations include communications, policy, operations, human resources, IT and fundraising/ development. Research: can be a position title, but is more often a task in a job description. For example, research- related tasks are often in the job descriptions of policy, operations, fundraising/ development and law positions. Positions that are fully research positions, like those at think tanks, would likely involve a heavy focus on reading and using the internet or other sources to dive deep into a particular topic with results typically communicated via writing in papers, summaries. Policy: work varies by organization, but is usually related to tracking legislation, researching current issues related to the work of the organization, scheduling meetings/events to spread the word, writing summaries/ briefings on Capitol Hill activities and engaging the public.

Articles in this issue

view archives of Infosheet - Sample Criminal Justice Internships Outside of Law Enforcement