Where can I find employment as a criminologist?

Where can I find employment as a criminologist?

With the rise in crime rate not only in India, but also in foreign countries also at an increasing rate, the need of criminologists has also increased manifolds. Criminologists are employed not only to detect the cause and effect of the criminal activity, but they have to work on the cases to solve them and to prevent them also. Various positions where a criminologist can work on are:
• Can work as probation officers, jailors, social welfare officers, counselors.
• Can apply for teaching positions as lecturers and professors in courses related to criminology, legal studies, law and sociology.
• Aspirants can work in social welfare departments of both public and private sector companies.
• As a researcher also a criminologist can work to understand the judicial system and on criminal rehabilitation and later can open their own counseling and rehabilitation centers.
• Aspirants can also join NGO’s, private security and detective agencies.

Graduates who are fresher’s in the industry can work on collection and cataloguing of the data’s and information, conducting surveys, compile crime statistics and reports and can develop crime prevention strategies for approval.