My interest in criminal justice grew from wanting to understand not only why crime happens, but how societies respond to it; and whether those responses actually create safer, fairer and more just outcomes.

 

Through my Master of Criminal Justice at Universiti Malaya, I have explored a range of issues across the criminal justice system. My coursework and assignments have taken me into topics including forensic evidence and its reliability, policing and technology, sentencing, rehabilitation and restorative justice, and the treatment and reintegration of children in conflict with the law. I have done extensive research into the roles of women in the criminal justice system and human rights. One of the case studies I worked focuses on the impact of corruption on women and how the criminal justice system response influence women's experience in navigating law enforcement processes.

 

I have also used my academic work to explore issues closely connected to my professional experience. I have examined offender profiling in wildlife crime, the potential application of anti-money laundering frameworks to wildlife trafficking, and the challenges of investigating and prosecuting environmental offences. Other assignments have allowed me to critically examine how evidence is assessed, how technology is changing crime and law enforcement, and where criminal justice institutions fall short in supporting meaningful rehabilitation and reintegration.

 

Studying criminal justice while working in wildlife conservation has allowed these two parts of my work to inform each other. It has strengthened my interest in evidence-based enforcement, institutional accountability, proportionality, rehabilitation and restorative approaches; and in understanding how criminal justice can become not simply more punitive, but more effective and just.