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Watching crime and mystery shows can be truly thrilling. Even the most enterprising offender is profiled, arrested and tried by a team of highly skilled professionals, special agents, psychologists, criminal profilers, behaviour analysts and criminal psychologists all within the span of a forty minute episode. Just like magic! In a country like India where the population is on the rise along with the crime rate, we are in dire need of such kind of magicians. Today, the professional and academic prospects for skilled experts in the field of criminology - wizards grounded in the social sciences - are virtually unlimited.
In 1885, a renowned Italian law professor Raffaele Garofalo coined the term "criminologia" which we refer to as Criminology in the present day. Criminology is a part of behavioural science in which the nature and extent of criminal acts is studied and researched. Criminologists aid the authorities in investigating and solving criminal acts. Criminology has great potential for students willing to make a career out of it, both within the country as well as outside. If you are good with analytical skills, want to work towards social change and are looking for a job which can be both exciting and fulfilling a career in criminology might be something worth looking into.
In most parts of the western world, criminologists form an essential part of almost every...