Journal of Current Researches on Social Sciences (JoCReSS) www.stracademy.org/jocress ISSN: 2547-9644 Year:2017 Volume: 7 Issue: 1 An Evaluation with Regard to Sufficiency of Associate’s Degree Education in the Field of Law and Sufficiency of Legal Education at Vocational Schools of Justice in Turkey Başak Oya KORAP 1 Keywords Legal Education, The Vocational Schools Of Justice, Law Department, Justice Programme, Vocational Competence. Abstract To provide tranquility and order in a society is possible only if , constituting and protecting justice, equility, freedom, peace and security in it. Law is a rule of social order that confront every area of social life and needed every time by everyone. It is very important that to be embraced by individuals of society and the stationary culture of obeying these rules right along with effectiveness, deterrence and providing justice characteristics of these rules which are binding and existed by orders and prohibitions. The first aim of legal education is training individuals who know their own rights and responsibilities and strong personalities. Thus it will be contribute this stationary conscious that is studied law lessons in the field of social sciences at least associate degree. The other aim is need of quilified manpower in the field of law in practice. There is a need for well-educated jurists to ensure that the state can successfully fulfill the function of legislative executive jurisdiction. These human resources are primarily provided by law faculties, and are being met by other faculties and vocational schools. As the number of faculties and vocational schools increased every year, they do not fully meet the needs of the present. The shortage of teaching academic staff and inadequate practice made law education questionable. Many students, including students studying at the law faculties, are unaware of the justice mechanisms such as courts, executive offices and execution centers during their education period, and it is unfortunately observed that some of them remain helpless with theoretical knowledge after graduation and are forced to seek help from permanent practitioners. At the level of associate degree, the situation is not very welcoming. However, the Vocational Schools of Justice are associate degree programs opened with the aim of educating the justice assistant service personnel who have the basic legal concepts and basic legal principles, the legal profession's justice profession ethics and the ability to solve the problems of continuous learning and basic law. Law education at the associate degree has become a center of attraction of the vocational schools of justice, and the law department and the Justice Programs have been established in many vocational colleges as well as the number of students has increased significantly. Nowadays, the number exceeds 700; Vocational schools; Vocational Schools of Social Sciences Vocational Schools of Health Sciences etc. There are many different 1 Corresponding Author. Öğr. Gör., Yalova Üniversitesi, Çınarcık MYO, Adalet Programı, basakoya@hotmail.com