Criminolgy

hey Sarah, i'm Lauren....i want to enter that field too, well, more specifically a major in forensic science and a minor in criminology/criminal justice...With criminology u work on cases closely with law enforcement (or FBI, but i notice ur from england, so i don't really know if u have something similiar like us in the U.S.) and making profiles for criminals. You may want to check out princetonreview.com and type in criminology...it should give u a good background on the field, the salary, and the jobs....Good Luck!
 
I was thinking about doing this too. For english, we have to look up careers were interested in. I picked criminal justice/law enforcement administration. And we have to interview a person from that field and im gonna talk to this guy who worked for the CIA!!Im so excited, i have to call tonight

But yeah for criminoly-you can be a criminologist, fbi, cia, or forensic scientist(they're different than a criminologist for some reason but im not sure)but yeah that's all i found. Anything basicallywithin the law enforcement field cuz they'll look for that
 
I have a couple of friends in Criminal Justice and Crimonlogy.. From what I understand you can enter quite a lot of fields of work with this degree. You can go to policing, working with inmates at penitentaries, anything really relating to police, lol.
 
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You'd actually need a science background for this.

There's several careers you can enter with criminology.

For all of those government agencies. You'll definitely need a Masters. You can see so for yourself at their websites.

PhD:

Criminal Justice Researcher
Criminal Justice Consultant
Corrections Psychologist

Law or Master’s Degree:

Criminal Justice Administrator
University Professor
Lawyer – Defence or Crown Attorney
Child Care Case Worker (Example: Children’s Aid Society)
Counselor
Forensic Specialist

Bachelor’s Degree:

Parole Officer
Probation Officer
Recreational Specialist
Law Enforcement Administrator

College:

Police Officer (application requires a minimum of high school but most recruiters look for postsecondary qualifications)
Correctional Officer
Customs and Excise Officer
Legal Assistant
Provincial/Federal Park Ranger
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forensic scientist(they're different than a criminologist for some reason but im not sure)
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Criminologists deal with the science of crime (the sociological and psychological aspects of it). For example, why does crime occur? There's a whole lot of theories about this. Classical theory. Marxist theory. Biosocial theory. etc...

Whereas a forensic scientist is like CSI, except in real life you don't have all this technology to play with. And, forensics often isn't the main thing that leads to the solving of a crime (real forensics personnel don't have a wide range of knowledge regarding a bunch of miscellaneous subjects as those tv characters). Rather, it's the identification of a suspect by the victim that does it. I think forensic work is more of a reinforcement for suspicion.

Edit: Yeah... I'm actually a crim student. We say "crim" for short.
 
ooooo!!! webmisstress, so do u have to take certain subjects to be able to actually do criminology aka crim?
if so what are they?
because i'm going to go to college next year and i have to choose all my courses iand i have no idea as to wat to choose!!!!
 
Hey :smiley:

I would like to follow criminology but I live in Portugual and in here I think that's not a good option. There's "almost nobody" working on this area.
 
obsessetion said:
ooooo!!! webmisstress, so do u have to take certain subjects to be able to actually do criminology aka crim?
if so what are they?
because i'm going to go to college next year and i have to choose all my courses iand i have no idea as to wat to choose!!!!
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For Criminology, you can take pretty much anything. Just make sure you at least have an English. But, you may want to do a double major depending on which way you plan on going with it.

Criminology splits into a couple of directions:

Law (Here a double isn't as important, but taking law would help)
Sociology (This is for counsellors, researchers, etc.)
Law Enforcement (Taking another major doesn't matter here. You could actually go into this straight out from high school. But... a college degree does give you a step up from other applicants.)
Psychology (This is good for those who want to focus on the criminological mind. For instance, a profiler or a forensic psychologist. I know that very few profilers exist. So, it's either they're in very little demand or not many go into that field. As for forensic psychologists. A lot of them burn out because many start to care too much about their cases and the pay isn't very good.)
 
Raki said:
Hey :smiley:

I would like to follow criminology but I live in Portugual and in here I think that's not a good option. There's "almost nobody" working on this area.
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This could be a good thing too though Raki, because if there are courses and jobs avaliable, you'd have a higher chance of getting into them. If it's something you really want to do, don't let the fact that it's really popular/really unpopular put you off.

Jaiu
 
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