Can Profiling be a Career?

This is not actually a job title, as you can see by visiting the FBI website. You can not be solely a profiler of criminals but can conduct profiling in addition to a range of job responsibilities. Think of profiling as a task you will get to do within a broader career, such as forensic psychology or law enforcement. Special agents at the National Center for the Analysis of Violet Crime do often get tasked with constructing profiles of criminals. To become a special agent tasked with profiling you must have experience in investigating violet and sexual crimes as well as an advanced degree in behavioral or forensic science. If you dont think you want to become a special agent, you could still get into this filed by becoming a research specialist, specializing in intelligence research, violent crime and crime analysis. These types of research positions require in-depth knowledge of research methodology, data collection and analysis. This is not an entry-level field and you must ...  more