Preferred majors to start a career in behavioral science include Criminal Justice or a related field such as Sociology, Psychology, Forensic Science, or Criminology. The best school to study at would be FBI Academy.
The FBI Academy, Behavioral Science Unit is a program to develop relevant programs of research, training , and knowledge in behavioral and social sciences that will help to improve the operational and effectiveness of the FBI squads. The law enforcement are also helped. The Behavioral Science Unit helps to create bodies of knowledge in special areas, and to help the learning of applied research on significant behavioral and social science issues for use in the training of the FBI and people who help with the support of operational matters. This program offers a Bahvioral Analysis intership. It last for twelve weeks. This is a volunteer Internship Program that brings students to work at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia.
The internship gives students a chance to work and apply their knowledge to real world criminals and their behavior. The internship duties will vary depending on what the BAU needs assistance with. Generally, duties include literature searches and reviews; research design; and data collection, coding, entry, and analysis. Interns also assist with special crime analysis projects such as researching various aspects of crimes and criminal behavior, and developing and extending resource materials for the Behavioral Science Unit in topical areas such as hate crimes, gang violence, law enforcement officers killed, counterterrorism, and other areas. Applicants have to be very be aware that the subject matter involved may be graphic and violent. Work hours are from 8:00am – 4:30pm, Monday through Friday. Experience working with computers is also very desirable.
There are plenty of colleges for this career. You just need to take as many psychology and sociology classes as possible. A good place to find a college in the study of behavioral analysis is in California, Texas, or Florida. Yale is another excellent school to attend for this career. The hard acceptance would be a major problem, but there are plenty of other colleges you may also attend. Yale is also very pricey which may be another issue. So if your really looking into behavioral science apply to as many colleges as possible. You will need scholarships, because there are few to no colleges for behavioral science in a place like Iowa. The price for you to go would be much higher, since you are out of state.
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