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Education and Career in Criminal Psychology

When pursuing a career in criminal psychology you first need a bachelor's degree in psychology and then a master's degree in a related field. While a master's degree is typically where people stop in their education, it may not get you the ideal job or pay that you desire. Typically you will also need a doctorate degree as well, either a Ph.D or a Psy.D. In addition to your degrees, you will need to take your licensing exam required by your state or jurisdiction. When pursuing any kind of doctorate degree, it can take about five to seven years to achieve and includes various means of educational training such as classroom work, practical training, research, and a dissertation or thesis.

If you wish to pursue a career as a criminal profiler, you will also need a master's degree or a doctorate and many years of experience. After passing your examinations for your state you can become a licensed psychologist.

Criminal profilers can work in various settings including offices and courtrooms and can be employed at a number of institutions. Some include local, state, or federal government, and others can be self-employed as independent consultants.

Depending on your desired field in psychology, average salary can be around $80,370 a year but criminal psychologist are paid on a different scale than other types of psychologist. Some of the top paying states for forensic psychologists are New Hampshire, Washington, New York, Massachusetts, and California.

Forensic psychology careers are continuing to close the gap between psychology and the criminal justice system. Job opportunities include...


 * 1) Correctional counselor
 * 2) Jury consultant
 * 3) Forensic social worker
 * 4) Expert witness
 * 5) Forensic psychology professor
 * 6) Forensic psychology researcher
 * 7) Forensic case manager
 * 8) Criminal profiler
 * 9) Forensic psychologist
 * 10) Correctional psychologist

'''Legal psychologists, are also known as Criminal psychologists make the decisions on offenders. They see if those offenders are a threat to society.'''

Criminal psychology is also related to Legal psychology and forensic psychology.

The four roles of criminal psychologists[edit]
'''In 1981, one of the fathers of UK's criminal psychology – Professor Lionel Haward – described four ways that psychologist may perform upon being professionally involved in criminal proceedings. These four ways include:'''

'''Clinical: In this situation, the psychologist is involved in assessment of an individual in order to provide a clinical judgment. The psychologist can use assessment tools, interview or psychometric tools in order to aid in their assessment. These assessments can help police and other comparable organizations to determine how to process the individual in question. For example, the psychologist helps to find out whether the individual is capable to stand trial, or whether the individual has a mental illness that relates to whether they are able to understand the proceedings.'''

'''Experimental: In this case, the task of the psychologist is to perform research in order to inform a case. This can involve executing experimental tests for the purposes of illustrating a point or providing further information to courts. This may involve false memory, eyewitness credibility experiments, and more. For example, this way involves questions similar to “how likely would a witness see an object in 100 meters?” that could be answered.'''

'''Actuarial: This role involves usage of statistics in order to inform a case. A psychologist may be asked to provide the probability of an event occurring. For example, the courts may ask how likely it is that a person will reoffend if a sentence is declined.'''