Criminologist

Duties and Responsibilities: criminologists determine and analyze criminal patterns based on biographical, social and psychological factors to aid law enforcement in assessing potential criminals. Criminologists study a variety of factors to determine why criminals commit crimes. They also consider psychological and social concerns, research data about crimes and arrests and study the background of the criminal to determine if any biological situations led him or her to commit the crime. While studying the criminal, criminologists unveil incidents that may have influenced their crime.

Salary: Those who work in federal government, including law enforcement, made even more at an average of $97,410 that year, though state and local government paid somewhat less, $62,950 and $67,830, respectively.

Education: Criminologist are required to have a bachelors or masters degree for employment, ad some states require criminologists to pass a licensing

I would like to study the field of criminology because I would like to learn how a criminal did such thing as a crime. Also because I always wanted to be a criminologist and may be even get in the FBI agency.