Criminal Profiling

Recently I have found an interesting career in psychology, Criminal Profiling. Criminal Profiling is a career in both psychology and criminal justice. It is a profilers job to help law enforcement in apprehending criminals. They create profiles on what the suspect will be like, and this can help determine age, race, gender, social status,  and other things like that. Profilers analyze crime scenes alongside law enforcement so that they can see the crime firsthand and see how it was committed. It is not uncommon to for a profiler to work as law enforcement as well. The biggest employer of criminal profilers is the FBI, they have a special unit for behavioral analysis. Despite it being it's own unit most employees move up from a detective position and have experience on the field. So basically criminal profilers are like cops and detectives but use psychological methods to apprehending criminals.

Psychology

Psychology is a scientific study concerned with the functions of the human mind, specific to the behavioral functions. It is literally defined as "study of the soul". In the early 16th century, Latinist and Croatian humanist, Marko Marulic's book Psichiologia de ratione animae humanae the Latin term psychologia was first used. Since Marulic's time psychology has expanded quite a bit. Wilhelm Wundt, a German physician, is widely known as the "father of experimental psychology" and was the very first to ever be called a Psychologist. From Marulic's and Wundt's revolutionary work the field of Psychology has grown. Modern day Psychology has many branches in it's extensive field.
Biological: The study of how behaviors and the human mind are affected biologically, this field is tied closely with Neuroscience.
Clinical: This is a highly applied psychology branch, in which diagnosis are made and patients are treated.
Cognitive: The study of how humans think as well as mental processes, research areas are perception, reasoning, memory, emotions, etc.
Comparative: Branch of psychology focusing on animal behavior.
Developmental: The study of how the progression of age affects the development of the human mind.
Educational: The psychology of teaching and how students learn in an educational environment.
Forensics: The use of psychology in criminal investigations and at crime scenes, tightly knitted with Criminal Justice.
Industrial-Organizational: A field in which psychology is used in the workplace to optimize the work done by the workers.
Personality: The area focused on figuring out the composition of an individual's personality.
Social: The study of how an individual can be psychologically influenced by the presence of other individuals.