Careers in Criminal Justice

Careers in Corrections

• Provide guidance/support to inmate population
• Work solely with inmate confines
• Appointment at GS-9

• Guide and counsel inmates during their incarceration
• Conduct individual and group counseling sessions
• Strong interest in helping others

• Guard, observe, and supervise inmates in a correctional facility
• Sensitivity to other people
• Rotating shifts

• Counsel juveniles assigned to state youth division
• Work with juveniles from Persons in Need of Supervision to hard core adolescents
• Work frequently performed in an institutional setting

• Employed in correctional facility or private agency
• Investigate and take action for parole violations
• Training in firearms

• Counsel clients
• Help in transition from custody to society
• Must be able to interact well with inmates

• Provide vocational guidance for those soon to be released from incarceration
• Requires strong communication skills
• Work entails placement of hard-to-employ clients

• Similar to a corrections officer/prison administrator
• Requires strong administrative skills
• Must be willing to work all shifts and weekend

• Conduct presentence reports and evaluations concerning release conditions
• Work to rehabilitate and supervise offender once released
• Human relations skill a must

• Provide intake, investigation, and supervising service to family court for juveniles
• Requires desire to work with<

Careers in the Courts

• Interprets laws, serve as advocates/advisors
• Conduct research and write legal briefs
• Represent clients in civil or criminal court

• Uniformed law enforcement; provide courtroom security
• Escort prisoners, jury members
• Requires high school diploma and passing grade on Civil Service Examination

• Perform administrative and management functions within the court
• Assist judge with court calendar, case flow, personnel management
• Knowledge of law important

• Clerical assistant with a variety of administrative responsibilities
• Maintain case records
• Prepare statistical reports

• Assist and counsel defendants charged with crimes
• Evaluate and initiate treatment plans
• Make referrals to support agencies

• Record all trial proceedings with the use of stenographic machine
• Must pass certifying exam as court reporter
• Knowledge of legal vocabulary essential

• Ascertain eligibility for alternative to detention services
• Heavy interaction with defendant population
• Requires some related experience and education for appointment

• Assist/counsel victims of domestic violence
• Possess strong human relations skills
• Varied work hours

Careers in Forensic Science/Criminalistics

• Examine weapons used in commission of crimes
• Conduct identification of guns to functional tests of firearms

• Identifies the tools or objects used by criminals at the scene of a crime
• Involved in the investigation of motor vehicle theft

• Conducts laboratory analyses of body fluids (such as blood, urine, semen)
• Performs extensive chemical tests to determine content level of drugs or alcohol

• Responsible for collecting, classifying, analyzing, and identifying the fingerprint impressions
• Should be detailed oriented and able to exercise patience
• Must take civil service examination

• Employed by various police, and fire departments and insurance companies
• Determines origin and cause of fire, through collection of evidence

• Involves a minute comparison of questioned handwriting with known handwriting
• Determines whether or not handwriting is forged

• Conduct examinations of individuals to learn if responses are truthful
• Special skills and training are mandatory

Careers in Law Enforcement

• Investigate aircraft incidents
• Prepare factual reports of findings
• Required pilot in command (flight time) hours
• Knowledge of aircraft design and aviation practices

Careers in Private Security

• Leadership position that entails the ability to make policy decisions
• Consults and advises superiors in upper management
• Responsible for personnel administration

• Must be able to deal with people and collect evidence
• Must be able to work well under pressure

• Must have a working knowledge of how technological equipment operates

• Patrol a designated area
• Duties include checking gates, locks, windows, and doors
• Training in firearms and self-defense preferred