Scholarship for Msc Criminal Justice Studues - help me get the ONE place!!

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One possible place for next year. I want it to be MINE! It is not even guaranteed yet, wont know if there will be til end of April or so, but I need to work on my application for the course and the scholarship now to make it the absolute best. It will cover the full fees.

I am going to do it over 2 years so I can work alongside it as recommended by the senior lecturer i chatted with today at an open day. My job is relevant to it, and would provide me with excellent contacts and case studies and the lecturer was very keen for me to apply, said they needed people like me on it.

Key points she recommended mentioning for applying for the scholarship
motivation to study at postgraduate level
how my skills, experiences and interests would serve the course
what I plan to get from it
what i intend to do with it long term - in particular do i intend to go on to do PhD, which I do. They want this and I am more likely to be successful if I stress this.

Anything else? Tips, guidance someone to write it for me pleeeeease.

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C'mon ladies...help me get this scholarship! Key words, phrases, spin sentences, what do they want to hear?

What do you want to research?

well the Msc is a taught course, so the modules are already laid out. However, I am interested in looking at the way punishment and rehabilitation of offenders in the community, how it is implemented now, and what factors make it work and not work (ie bureaucracy & red tape, risk assessment processes, access to training and support for both offenders and CJ workers), public pressures on high profile cases in working with offenders (very topical eh? but always been an interest). I am also interested in looking at the risk factors of high risk groups of people who could go on to offend, what are the risk factors that steer people towards this, what processes can be developed to work with deviant groups in society to steer them in the right direction (ie, make that choice to do 'a' which takes them down a legal route rather than 'b' that takes them down the criminal route) is crime inevitable in certain groups of society, certain individuals, what are the risk factors that make it so, what needs to be done to break that cycle, although I expect that has been done to death. But fascinates me. The whole 'badge of honour' crime, moral reasoning based on familial environments etc.

Blah. That was a pile of waffle wasn't it? I think it needs some work, what I want to do. I need to fine tune my thoughts a bit. I have too many of them. I know what I want to do, but cannot word it.

Not a pile of waffle at all. I think its important to have an idea of what you intend to research if thinking of going on to do a PhD. Are you going for 3 and 1 funding go do your MSc? If so your PhD plans are crucial.