Criminal Psychologist Career Paper
For my research paper the career i chose to research is a Criminal Psychologist and what they do is address the mental state of an individual who has committed a criminal offense and involves studying and observing the criminal mind for intentions, thoughts and aberrant behavior. I chose this career because i’m into why people committee this horrible crimes in the world. And i’m into the Criminal Justice system after experiencing the job itself with a family friend and i like to research the mental state of the person who has committed the crime or why they did it. “ Is a Criminal Psychologist a good fit for your personal needs and life goals?” Yes, because it fits in my life goals of what i want to be and would love to do but for my personal
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needs i would have experience in family law and criminal defendants in a mental state examinations. The part of Criminal Psychologist do is they work in the forensics, where they will be applying psychological principles in the Criminal Justice System. There job is mostly to spent time conducting evaluations of the accused and alleged victims and the criminal psychologist might evaluate the defendant to determine his or her competency to stand on trial. And the other part of the job is to interview the victim of a crime in order of what happened in the timeline of the events, they can also provide the develop a clearer picture of what happened and whether or not the witness will be reliable on the stand. Criminal Psychologist can testify in military courts as well, speaking to the state of mind of the defendant during his or her alleged crime. The most responsible thing i would be doing to pursue this career will to visit him or her jail. In the jail site and talk about what had happened to get information to testify in the courts for their trails and the most important thing that will happen in the job i would do is during the jury selection process, the criminal psychologist can help attorneys determine which potential jurors are the most appropriate for the case and we can also help prosecutors and defense attorneys conclude which arguments are most persuasive in order to make their case. And most all the Criminal Psychologist spend most of their time in the courtroom.
As a part of being a Criminal Psychologist they often work alone. Yes, you do have to do public speaking in the courtrooms because you're sometimes called up to question him or her. No, I do have to admit that it’s not going to fit my personality at all because i don’t like to do public speaking. But for this job i will be extra hard working to make sure i am comfortable with public speaking. Yes, the job does require a lot of patience because not all the lab reports or the file of the criminal is going to straight to you and have to do a lot of studying when or where the crime took place. You need to have more of a more serious personality because very thing what you’re going to be doing is more serious. The work environment in always indoors or at times if they call you into look at the scene of the crime. Yes, everything that involves in the job is going to metal stress and it’s going to loud with noises if you visit the jails. Criminal Psychologist work about 40 hours in a week but i don’t think they won’t be a rotating shift because if you work alone there is no shift. Yes, there is traveling involved in this job course but it depends where the court case is going to take place. But i do say it’s going to be a good fit for me because i love to travel and i like to be involved in the crimes that has taken place and what’s going to happen with him or her.
No, this job does not involve with carrying or lifting stuff around work. Yes, there is repetitive tasks in this area of the job because you’re going to be the same thing almost everyday and there’s no way to get out of it.
In this case of being a Criminal Psychologist there is going to be standing up asking questions to the person who is up in trail or the victim at times to help out the lawyers and attorneys. And you will be driving at times to long hours just to be part of the case they had called you in for. No, not in this career you don’t have to be physically fit because Criminal attorneys, judges, criminal psychologists, profilers and university professors of criminal justice are just a few of the types of people in the career field who would not need to be physically fit to perform their jobs. For any type of work that primarily revolves around research and analysis, physical fitness will be irrelevant except as a general marker of good health. Therefore, while people with physical limitations may not be qualified for every type of criminal justice job, there are a number of career paths still open to …show more content…
them.
And you have to be educated in the higher high school level.
Yes, you will have to attend a University, first you get a bachelor's degree in psychology so that is four years. But once you get your bachelor's degree a student can gain entry to a graduate school psychology program with the major they have chosen. The right grad school for an advanced degree is not a quick decision to make. Many universities and colleges offer specialized psychology programs criminal psychology being one. You can also opt for a Ph.D. or Psy.D. degree in clinical or counseling psychology with focus on forensic or criminal psychology but it usually depends how long you want to be in school and get a higher education. In order for criminal psychologist to have training they must have at least one year of experience. This experience may be conducted through government agencies at the city, state, or federal level private consulting firms; hospital, prisons, courts or police departments. Experience is usually gained under the supervision of a licensed criminal psychologist and another way to experience can be gained through clinical practicums, internships, or residencies. Universities typically assist students in finding institutions to gain the necessary work experience. In this career you will have to spend time about 9 years because each year of your degree will count besides they want you to take up 2 or 3 years of graduate school but then a doctoral degree is recommended. To start in this
career will likely cost you total with all degrees will be up to $58,433 but that doesn’t include graduate school so probably it will cost more.
There is a steady employment in this field because only criminal psychologist can only be the ones be in the courtroom to testify and a computer can’t do that in this field usually a person is better off going to the crime scene and visiting the jails and talking to the person face to face so that way, the psychologist knows if they're lying or not and with that they know what to say in the courtroom with the information, Yes, workers are only hired because they want to replace the former employee that had worked there before. But the other thing about being on retirement the the person who is hiring has to hire people because if they didn’t they wouldn’t have so much people to visit people in jails or go testify against the person. And anyone considering a degree in forensic psychology will be pleased to learn of the positive outlook this career may hold in the future. Within the legal system, forensic psychologists entering the field may find stable, gratifying, and long-term work opportunities for years to come.
The starting salary with Criminal Psychologist make is the bottom 25% earned is $65,000 a year or less but in 2009 it was found that a psychologist in a criminal justice system earned a median wage of just over $80,000 a year but then again top 25% of Criminal Psychologist earned roughly $100,000 a year or more but it also depends how much experience that you have or many years for you to earn that kind of money. By each salary it depends which part of the United States that you live or Country or State like in California people can make up to (18,710 psychologists employed) $81,050 annual average salary. But the most top 5 to be in employed in California has to be in one of the locations: Hanford-Corcoran, CA 100 employed: $109,90 San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA 200 employed: $105,780, Vallejo-Fairfield, CA 210 employed: $102,960, Salinas, CA 230 employed: $100,610, Madera-Chowchilla, CA 90 employed: $99,170 but the thing you just have to look around the state of California to see where they pay the most. Yes, the good thing about this career was that they do provide everything paid like Vacation time for employees is 2 weeks of paid vacation and for Maternity/Paternity Leave is up to 12 weeks in accordance with the Family Medical Leave Act and the Sick Leave goes from Per Vacation policy. And for Medical there are several medical plans to select from. An employee contribution is required for each plan. Dental and Vision plans are provided at a minimal charge to each employee.
In Conclusion, for this Senior Research Paper the main reason i chose this because i wanted to know and study people with this profession are also trying to find out why do people commit offence, what are their motives, what made them do so. The research of cause effect relationship ranges from a serial killer’s childhood environment to psychological stress, which leads them to commit the crime since the main goal is not to only punish someone, but to prevent them from re-committing a crime. Another very important point is taking care about witnesses and victims. Very often they might get really serious stress and it is concern of police and psychologists to help them recover and that’s why i chose this career because i want to stop from the crime happening again. Honestly, my last thoughts on this career and after researching everything what’s to know about this career is i still want to pursue to be Criminal Psychologist because that’s what i really want to do. I want to visit jails talk to the prisoner about how he committed the crime and why chose to even though it won’t be easy as it seem to get the information from him or her and i’m into getting my hands dirty and getting the information and just testifying against the other people giving them a reason and i’m also into just studying their behavior and thoughts of Criminals. But in this whole research paper i’m still going to pursue this career.
needs i would have experience in family law and criminal defendants in a mental state examinations. The part of Criminal Psychologist do is they work in the forensics, where they will be applying psychological principles in the Criminal Justice System. There job is mostly to spent time conducting evaluations of the accused and alleged victims and the criminal psychologist might evaluate the defendant to determine his or her competency to stand on trial. And the other part of the job is to interview the victim of a crime in order of what happened in the timeline of the events, they can also provide the develop a clearer picture of what happened and whether or not the witness will be reliable on the stand. Criminal Psychologist can testify in military courts as well, speaking to the state of mind of the defendant during his or her alleged crime. The most responsible thing i would be doing to pursue this career will to visit him or her jail. In the jail site and talk about what had happened to get information to testify in the courts for their trails and the most important thing that will happen in the job i would do is during the jury selection process, the criminal psychologist can help attorneys determine which potential jurors are the most appropriate for the case and we can also help prosecutors and defense attorneys conclude which arguments are most persuasive in order to make their case. And most all the Criminal Psychologist spend most of their time in the courtroom.
As a part of being a Criminal Psychologist they often work alone. Yes, you do have to do public speaking in the courtrooms because you're sometimes called up to question him or her. No, I do have to admit that it’s not going to fit my personality at all because i don’t like to do public speaking. But for this job i will be extra hard working to make sure i am comfortable with public speaking. Yes, the job does require a lot of patience because not all the lab reports or the file of the criminal is going to straight to you and have to do a lot of studying when or where the crime took place. You need to have more of a more serious personality because very thing what you’re going to be doing is more serious. The work environment in always indoors or at times if they call you into look at the scene of the crime. Yes, everything that involves in the job is going to metal stress and it’s going to loud with noises if you visit the jails. Criminal Psychologist work about 40 hours in a week but i don’t think they won’t be a rotating shift because if you work alone there is no shift. Yes, there is traveling involved in this job course but it depends where the court case is going to take place. But i do say it’s going to be a good fit for me because i love to travel and i like to be involved in the crimes that has taken place and what’s going to happen with him or her.
No, this job does not involve with carrying or lifting stuff around work. Yes, there is repetitive tasks in this area of the job because you’re going to be the same thing almost everyday and there’s no way to get out of it.
In this case of being a Criminal Psychologist there is going to be standing up asking questions to the person who is up in trail or the victim at times to help out the lawyers and attorneys. And you will be driving at times to long hours just to be part of the case they had called you in for. No, not in this career you don’t have to be physically fit because Criminal attorneys, judges, criminal psychologists, profilers and university professors of criminal justice are just a few of the types of people in the career field who would not need to be physically fit to perform their jobs. For any type of work that primarily revolves around research and analysis, physical fitness will be irrelevant except as a general marker of good health. Therefore, while people with physical limitations may not be qualified for every type of criminal justice job, there are a number of career paths still open to …show more content…
them.
And you have to be educated in the higher high school level.
Yes, you will have to attend a University, first you get a bachelor's degree in psychology so that is four years. But once you get your bachelor's degree a student can gain entry to a graduate school psychology program with the major they have chosen. The right grad school for an advanced degree is not a quick decision to make. Many universities and colleges offer specialized psychology programs criminal psychology being one. You can also opt for a Ph.D. or Psy.D. degree in clinical or counseling psychology with focus on forensic or criminal psychology but it usually depends how long you want to be in school and get a higher education. In order for criminal psychologist to have training they must have at least one year of experience. This experience may be conducted through government agencies at the city, state, or federal level private consulting firms; hospital, prisons, courts or police departments. Experience is usually gained under the supervision of a licensed criminal psychologist and another way to experience can be gained through clinical practicums, internships, or residencies. Universities typically assist students in finding institutions to gain the necessary work experience. In this career you will have to spend time about 9 years because each year of your degree will count besides they want you to take up 2 or 3 years of graduate school but then a doctoral degree is recommended. To start in this
career will likely cost you total with all degrees will be up to $58,433 but that doesn’t include graduate school so probably it will cost more.
There is a steady employment in this field because only criminal psychologist can only be the ones be in the courtroom to testify and a computer can’t do that in this field usually a person is better off going to the crime scene and visiting the jails and talking to the person face to face so that way, the psychologist knows if they're lying or not and with that they know what to say in the courtroom with the information, Yes, workers are only hired because they want to replace the former employee that had worked there before. But the other thing about being on retirement the the person who is hiring has to hire people because if they didn’t they wouldn’t have so much people to visit people in jails or go testify against the person. And anyone considering a degree in forensic psychology will be pleased to learn of the positive outlook this career may hold in the future. Within the legal system, forensic psychologists entering the field may find stable, gratifying, and long-term work opportunities for years to come.
The starting salary with Criminal Psychologist make is the bottom 25% earned is $65,000 a year or less but in 2009 it was found that a psychologist in a criminal justice system earned a median wage of just over $80,000 a year but then again top 25% of Criminal Psychologist earned roughly $100,000 a year or more but it also depends how much experience that you have or many years for you to earn that kind of money. By each salary it depends which part of the United States that you live or Country or State like in California people can make up to (18,710 psychologists employed) $81,050 annual average salary. But the most top 5 to be in employed in California has to be in one of the locations: Hanford-Corcoran, CA 100 employed: $109,90 San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA 200 employed: $105,780, Vallejo-Fairfield, CA 210 employed: $102,960, Salinas, CA 230 employed: $100,610, Madera-Chowchilla, CA 90 employed: $99,170 but the thing you just have to look around the state of California to see where they pay the most. Yes, the good thing about this career was that they do provide everything paid like Vacation time for employees is 2 weeks of paid vacation and for Maternity/Paternity Leave is up to 12 weeks in accordance with the Family Medical Leave Act and the Sick Leave goes from Per Vacation policy. And for Medical there are several medical plans to select from. An employee contribution is required for each plan. Dental and Vision plans are provided at a minimal charge to each employee.
In Conclusion, for this Senior Research Paper the main reason i chose this because i wanted to know and study people with this profession are also trying to find out why do people commit offence, what are their motives, what made them do so. The research of cause effect relationship ranges from a serial killer’s childhood environment to psychological stress, which leads them to commit the crime since the main goal is not to only punish someone, but to prevent them from re-committing a crime. Another very important point is taking care about witnesses and victims. Very often they might get really serious stress and it is concern of police and psychologists to help them recover and that’s why i chose this career because i want to stop from the crime happening again. Honestly, my last thoughts on this career and after researching everything what’s to know about this career is i still want to pursue to be Criminal Psychologist because that’s what i really want to do. I want to visit jails talk to the prisoner about how he committed the crime and why chose to even though it won’t be easy as it seem to get the information from him or her and i’m into getting my hands dirty and getting the information and just testifying against the other people giving them a reason and i’m also into just studying their behavior and thoughts of Criminals. But in this whole research paper i’m still going to pursue this career.