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Learn About Becoming A Security Guard

Security guards enforce the law of the building they are hired to work in.

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Become A Bailiff

Are you someone who possesses good judgment and strong interpersonal and negotiating skills? Are you physically strong and self-disciplined?

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Use Your Analytical Skills As A Criminal Profiler

Criminal profilers develop the "profile" of the potential suspect by using every piece of evidence left at the crime scene.

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Have A Heart For Animals? Become An Animal Control Officer

Animal control officers are the heroes with huge hearts who go in and try to rescue the furry friends from their unfortunate circumstances.

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A Day In The Life: Correctional Officer

Grit and guts brought you to the field and keep you going in a day filled with cell searches, security rounds, and mail shakedowns.

 

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Successful Police Officers—Ethics, Honesty, Commitment, Strength

Training can only take you so far: The best police officers come to the field with these characteristics as natural to them as breathing.

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How To Get Financial Aid For Criminal Justice School

Furthering your education can be expensive, but tuitition costs don’t have to make a diploma out of reach. There are many ways you can get help in order to lighten the cost of trade school or college.

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​What Successful Criminal Justice Graduates Have In Common

While there are certainly exceptions, the following traits are common to most successful criminal justice program graduates.

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Ten Things Policer Officers Learn On The Job

Your colleagues will become closer to you than some family members, and a sense of humor will keep you sane.

 

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Alternative Jobs You Can Get With A Criminal Justice Degree

Like criminal justice but don’t want to be a police officer? Think about one of these half-dozen different career options with duties ranging from making arrests at the post office to going after poachers.

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