A Career In Criminal Profiling

In the FBI, there are many different jobs, all dealing with many different problems. Criminal profiling is one of the fields of the FBI that stood out to me. Profiling is somewhat glorified on the television, but this job is not what people make of it. Profiling is a major part in finding a suspect in a case. For my career project, I chose to research the job profession of a criminal profiler.
Timothy Roufa, Major and Chief Technology Officer of law enforcement, describes criminal profiling as, “Investigators who specialize in inductive and deductive reasoning to build a profile of particular criminal based upon characteristics of the crime committed” (Roufa, “Criminal Profiling Career Information: Salary, Education, and Work Environment of
To become a profiler you will need a minimum bachelor’s degree in psychology, forensics, criminal justice, or related discipline, a master’s degree is optional. In addition to a degree to officially become a profiler Timothy Roufa states, “In addition to their law enforcement and police academy training, criminal profilers receive professional training and development to hone their skills and prepare them for the specific job of profiling” (Roufa, “Criminal Profiling Career Information: Salary, Education, and Work Environment of a Criminal Profiler”).
The college I chose to research was Georgetown University in Washington, DC. I chose to research this college because I have always wanted to go to college away and DC is where most of the profiling jobs are. Before getting into college, I need to graduate from Seton High School. In order to graduate Seton I must complete four credits of religion, English, and mathematics, three credits of social studies and science, two credits of world languages, one credit of fine arts, and finally half a credit of health, physical education, and freshman seminar. Currently, as a sophomore, my GPA is a
The Georgetown psychology website says, “The Department of Psychology offers undergraduate students both a major (31 credits) and a minor (18 credits)” (Georgetown University, “Department of Psychology: Undergraduate Program”). There are six courses required for this program. General Psychology, probability and statistics, and research methods and statistics are a few or the required classes you must complete in order to get a bachelor’s degree.
Criminal profiling would not be a very good job in Cincinnati even though, “Things are pretty good at home” (Watkins, “Cincinnati’s Bright Outlook: ‘Our economy should do better than the U.S.’”). Most of the profilers are station in Quantico, Virginia. There is a FBI in Cincinnati, but there are rarely any profilers here. Just because there are not many jobs for this career in this area, I feel like I would excel in the