Career Field Report: Criminal Profiler
High school was a hard time for me because I didn’t like school at all. My junior and senior year I was home schooled through K12 Online Public School. I wasn’t planning on going to college at all until the middle of my senior year I really started to think about going to college. In May 2012 I applied to go to Sheridan College and was thinking about the Criminal Justice because I was leaning towards being an attorney. I declared my major as Criminal Justice. I started learning a lot about the Criminal Justice field and became very intrigued with Criminal Profiling. I like thinking about a crime and wondering why and who might have committed the crime. I would like to be able to help people through my …show more content…
There are many duties that come with being a Criminal Profiler. Criminal Profilers go to crime scenes and analyze the crime. They have to read reports from investigators and other analysts. They have to write a lot of reports. Sometimes Criminal Profilers are asked to provide a court testimony. Criminal Profilers work with police officers and detectives. They also have to study human behaviors and characteristics. They also require critical thinking skills, and its very detail-oriented. Criminal Profilers can earn up to 140,000 dollars annually. Some of the negative aspects of a Criminal Profiler can be tensions between law enforcement and detectives. The work can be very dark and depressing looking at photos, videos, and audio of murders or rapists. Positive aspects of the job can be helping to solve a crime. The pay is a …show more content…
Elaine worked in the Organ State Hospital for 2 years. She has worked with Criminal Profilers before and she worked on a Gang Task Force. She worked with Clinton R. Van Zandt a FBI profiler. Elaine told me that the job is very demanding. A Criminal Profiler has to like doing research. They also have to like working alone because most all of the work is done by yourself. That I would have to also sit in a office most of the day looking for patterns of behavior. Also that it is important to know Thinking Errors Characteristic of the Criminal. Elaine told me that Criminal Profiling was looking to grown 12%, which comes out to about 18,000 people in the next 10 years. Some negative aspects to the job were putting a strain on family. Also if you work for the FBI you can associate with any know offenders. If you have family members that are offenders this could cause problems with in the
High school was a hard time for me because I didn’t like school at all. My junior and senior year I was home schooled through K12 Online Public School. I wasn’t planning on going to college at all until the middle of my senior year I really started to think about going to college. In May 2012 I applied to go to Sheridan College and was thinking about the Criminal Justice because I was leaning towards being an attorney. I declared my major as Criminal Justice. I started learning a lot about the Criminal Justice field and became very intrigued with Criminal Profiling. I like thinking about a crime and wondering why and who might have committed the crime. I would like to be able to help people through my …show more content…
There are many duties that come with being a Criminal Profiler. Criminal Profilers go to crime scenes and analyze the crime. They have to read reports from investigators and other analysts. They have to write a lot of reports. Sometimes Criminal Profilers are asked to provide a court testimony. Criminal Profilers work with police officers and detectives. They also have to study human behaviors and characteristics. They also require critical thinking skills, and its very detail-oriented. Criminal Profilers can earn up to 140,000 dollars annually. Some of the negative aspects of a Criminal Profiler can be tensions between law enforcement and detectives. The work can be very dark and depressing looking at photos, videos, and audio of murders or rapists. Positive aspects of the job can be helping to solve a crime. The pay is a …show more content…
Elaine worked in the Organ State Hospital for 2 years. She has worked with Criminal Profilers before and she worked on a Gang Task Force. She worked with Clinton R. Van Zandt a FBI profiler. Elaine told me that the job is very demanding. A Criminal Profiler has to like doing research. They also have to like working alone because most all of the work is done by yourself. That I would have to also sit in a office most of the day looking for patterns of behavior. Also that it is important to know Thinking Errors Characteristic of the Criminal. Elaine told me that Criminal Profiling was looking to grown 12%, which comes out to about 18,000 people in the next 10 years. Some negative aspects to the job were putting a strain on family. Also if you work for the FBI you can associate with any know offenders. If you have family members that are offenders this could cause problems with in the