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Vidia
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How does criminologist contribute to the understanding or prevention of crime?
I am a 8th grader form the school crane middle school my name is Vidia and I want to be a criminologist because I like for the crimes and I like the way they fine the evinced people what happened, i like how they take care of the crime and the investigation of the victims, I like how they go in to all of the people that they were close to the victim.
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Carey Hutchison
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Hello Vidia!
That's a really good, and actually interesting thing to say. It could be taken to be very deep.
According to a quick google search for a definition of "criminologist" pulled from a university website (which will be paraphrased), a criminologist is a person who:
Studies crime and criminals using methods pulled from "non-legal" fields -
So, a criminologist would NOT be at the scenes of these crimes, meet families, and maybe not even the criminal. The people who MAY meet some of these people are the police, police investigators, the forensics team, and so on, like you probably see on shows.
A criminologist is more in the background studying data, images, whatever else, in order to understand Crime itself and, of course, then must understand Criminals - how they work, why, et cetera in an effort tooo...
-create useful data that may help in understanding criminals,
-may create data that could be used to prevent crimes,
and finally!
-some may try to figure out how ~exactly~ crimes that happen are effecting people in an area, a street, families in general, the economy, and so on.
This ^ is the job of a criminologist!
It sounds great to me, but also considering you said that you enjoy evidence and exploring what other people may say surrounding the crime or the criminal, one other great options may be some sort of investigator.
An investigative social worker sounds maybe like a good fit! Exploring potential careers is fun, don't worry about being 100% sure yet and just dig around!
Thank you for writing here!
-Carey
Do some research on "investigative social worker job description"
Do some research (if you haven't already) on "criminologist job description"
Have a great school year! :)
That's a really good, and actually interesting thing to say. It could be taken to be very deep.
According to a quick google search for a definition of "criminologist" pulled from a university website (which will be paraphrased), a criminologist is a person who:
Studies crime and criminals using methods pulled from "non-legal" fields -
So, a criminologist would NOT be at the scenes of these crimes, meet families, and maybe not even the criminal. The people who MAY meet some of these people are the police, police investigators, the forensics team, and so on, like you probably see on shows.
A criminologist is more in the background studying data, images, whatever else, in order to understand Crime itself and, of course, then must understand Criminals - how they work, why, et cetera in an effort tooo...
-create useful data that may help in understanding criminals,
-may create data that could be used to prevent crimes,
and finally!
-some may try to figure out how ~exactly~ crimes that happen are effecting people in an area, a street, families in general, the economy, and so on.
This ^ is the job of a criminologist!
It sounds great to me, but also considering you said that you enjoy evidence and exploring what other people may say surrounding the crime or the criminal, one other great options may be some sort of investigator.
An investigative social worker sounds maybe like a good fit! Exploring potential careers is fun, don't worry about being 100% sure yet and just dig around!
Thank you for writing here!
-Carey
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