In addition to the information I found out about forensic psychology in my last post, I found out a few more things about the job. There are many career paths in psychology which I narrowed down to forensic psychology, but with some more research I learned that I could narrow down my career path even further.
Forensic psychologists can choose to go into Clinical forensics, which is the most common sub field because it basically involves studying the mental processes and behavior of criminal's minds to determine the reasoning for their actions. Psychologists create a case study to determine the reasons, and they do this by observing and studying the history of the criminal.
Another sub field similar to this one is called Forensic Research Psychology. These psychologists focus on developing new methods of interrogating criminals and new ways to assess criminals and eyewitnesses. Of course there methods and assessments constantly improve and keep changing. These researches also make policies related to juveniles and the elderly.
The sub field I'm leaning towards is called Investigative Forensic Psychology. This is where psychologists focus on assisting with investigative procedures and analyzing mental processes of suspects, witnesses, and criminals. They are even involved with criminal profiling and psychological autopsies. This sub field interests me because the psychologists actually help assist the investigations and criminal investigation is my original career choice. This would be a good fit because it combines the investigative side of crime and includes the psychological aspects of crime.
This sounds really interesting! Doing psychological investigations sounds pretty hard but really cool. You'd still be totally involved in solving cases, but the work wouldn't be as dangerous as if you were out in the field as well.
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