i want to be a criminal profiler, but i'm not detail oriented.?
538677
to much CSI. Keep your day job.
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try coming out of prison from robbing 11 banks and getting a job. You have it made compared to me...\nIn the application where it asks if you ever had any criminal convictions------leave it blank. and wait to answer that question during the interview. You're not lying....you're simply choosing not to share that kind of info for others to see.
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Instead of worrying about what courses or majors to take, go backwards, look for actual jobs you'd want to do, then find their job ads and see what the typical experience and education requirements are and THEN find the courses you need to take.  Criminology encompasses a huge range, so try narrowing your interest and go from there.  In the end the diploma specifics doesn't mean a whole lot, you'll find that out in the real world.
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Some psychology should help.\n\nA good secondary education is necessary (I think).\n\nBut you will get training.\n\nOther than that, just apply. (If you like hearing sex cases / murderers / smackheads / etc confess all their crimes and the reasons behind it).\n\nDoesn't sound like a nice job to me.\n\nMaybe its time to put the kettle on, eh?
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First please remember there are very few of these job openings, most police departmetns do not have crime labs,  they merely process evidence, pack it up and send it to the state crime lab.\n\nBut you go to college and major in one of the science feilds or have a major in foresnics from a few colleges that offer it.\n\nOften while waiting for a better opening you may be a evidence tech, just collecting evidence.\n\nNormally no, youare not a cop first,  totally different field.\n\nAlso the crime techs don't go out into the field chasing the bad guys, they stay in thier labs doing reports
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Profiling is an investigative technique and forensic science with many names and a history of being practiced on many levels for many years.  It is extensively represented and glamorized in books and film.  It is most commonly associated with law enforcement, although profiling takes place in other areas and in other contexts not limited to criminal justice (Harris 2002; Bumgarner 2004).  There is fundamental difference, however, with criminal justice profiling as normally, one is looking for an "unknown" person, not just profiling a celebrity or known individual on the basis of public domain information.  Many dictionaries and encyclopedias tend to call this offender profiling or criminal profiling.  The next most common names for it are psychological criminal profiling, or simply psychological profiling. The FBI approach produced the name criminal personality profiling. Criminologists tend to think of it as a type of applied criminology or clinical criminology, and some in criminal justice tend to strongly associate it with crime scene reconstruction and detectives or former detectives tend to call it criminal investigation assessment or crime assessment. Alison & Canter (1999) say that profiling almost always takes place after a crime scene has been examined, but there are many profilers who only work with crime scene records and reports and consult from behind a desk.  Holmes & Holmes (2002) prefer the name sociopsychological profiling, and like many others, think of it as a type of behavioral investigative analysis or criminal investigative analysis.  There is a tendency in some circles to believe that profiling is a learned ability which comes from experience working as a detective (the so-called "feel" for crime, or the profiling-as-art dimension), and this is WRONG since good profiling will blend educational and training backgrounds.  To be a good profiler, one needs to have knowledge of sociology, psychology, psychiatry, and criminology, as well as the ability to blend the theories of these disciplines with common sense.
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Depending on the police department that you want to be a police officer for. I have seen police officers with simple assualt convictions on their record, BUT you haven't been convicted yet! Get yourself a good attorney, it would be well worth the money!
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Ask one. Call your local police station and say you're doing a report on crime investigation and would like to interview an investigator.
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Um, yeah, sure. Just go to your local FBI office and ask them, I'm sure they can help you.
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Try looking in www.salary.com or look on the FBIjobs.gov for information on what is a "profiler".  Below was cut from this websites FAQ's.  Hope this helps with your project:\n\nNational Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime\n\nI just want to be an FBI "Profiler," where do I begin the application process?\nYou first need to realize the FBI does not have a job called "Profiler." The tasks commonly associated with "profiling" are performed by Supervisory Special Agents assigned to the National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime (NCAVC) at Quantico, Virginia. These FBI Special Agents don't get vibes or experience psychic flashes while walking around fresh crime scenes. It is an exciting world of investigation and research—a world of inductive and deductive reasoning; crime-solving experience; and knowledge of criminal behavior, facts, and statistical probabilities.\n\nIn addition to constructing "profiles" (descriptions of the traits and characteristics of unknown offenders in specific cases), the NCAVC staff provides many services to law enforcement agencies around the world. These services include major case management advice; threat assessment; and strategies for investigation, interviewing, or prosecution.
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you need to provide more detail.  do you have a degree?  do you have interest in some other path?  How long have you been doing security and why don't you like it?
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I'm sure there are plenty of law enforcement jobs that you could apply for.  Also, consider that you might also be in the position of becoming a consultant of some sort.
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Yeah, don't talk about your choice of career on the internet.\n\nYou should rephrase the question: "How do I get investigated by the Feds and go to jail?"\n\nOr: "Do you know any good lawyers?"
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drugs.  find a cheap alternative to your current method of investigation.  asking total strangers online is not the way to plan your life.  drugs. that's the ticket!
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I am not sure, but I would like to sign up for this investigation!
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Ahh, the Good Ole Boy system at it's finest.  Going on here where I live.  Did a big story about some small rural departments hiring guys will felony drug arrest, aggravated assaults.  Smaller departments like that somehow can sometimes get away without doing background checks, don't know how, some loop hole I guess. \n\nI agree with the previous post, you're going to need proof of it, and any information you have.  Try contacting your state Bureau of Investigation office. (If you lived in Kansas, it would be called KBI, here in Tennesse it's TBI, etc.)  Can also contact the agency that certifies the officers.  Some states it's called POST(Police Officer's Standards & Training) or CJST(Criminal Justice Standards and Training).  They're the one's that can yank a cop's certification.
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I don't know what you plan on doing if you want to be a criminal justice major - but I'd like to give you some advice from personal experience.\n\nIf you plan on being a police officer, or federal law enforcement (FBI, Secret Service, DEA, CBP, etc), and you need a college degree - pick your SECOND favorite major besides criminal justice.  The service you pick will train you on the law enforcement stuff.  All they care about is that you have a college degree.  You can intern with a police department or something during college to display your interest.\n\nIt makes you much more well-rounded and more valuable to them if you have a degree in accounting, business, or some sort of science (particularly chemistry or biology).  I even know a guy who majored in nuclear engineering who is a police officer (and has invaluable knowledge about hazardous materials and the potential threats of nuclear terrorism).\n\nHaving another degree also makes it easier in the future if you should decide to use your law enforcement experience and enter private business.  I've been stuck in law enforcement for a little while after trying to make a career change because ALL of my education, experience, etc is in law enforcement.\n\nI've advised many college students along this same path but no one really wants to do it.  They will have to learn it from experience.\n\nI attended the school with the courses that the previous poster listed.  It is actually the University of Maryland, and I've taken many of those courses.  Please feel free to email me if you have ANY qustions about being a criminal justice major or police work.