What Can You Do With a Master’s Degree

By Joel Figueroa

Quick Overview

• Administration• Case Management• Clinical/Counseling• Correctional Officer• Court Liaison

Quick Overview Cont’d.

• Forensic Treatment• Work With Juvenile Offenders• Law Enforcement• Probation/Parole/Supervised Release/Transitional• Research• Work With Sex Offenders• Substance Abuse Services• Victim Advocacy

Focus on Correctional Officers

• Responsibilities:• Monitor• Maintain Order• Discipline• Log and report orally

Adverse Consequences for Correctional Officers

• Limited protection• Highest rate of nonfatal on-the-job injuries• Usually injured by inmates

Research in Forensic Psychology

• I.E. Research on confessions• False confessions due to 15-20% of DNA

exonerations.• Maximization: accusations, overriding

objections, and citing real or fictional evidence.

• Minimization: sympathy and understanding, which fools the suspect

A Note in Emerging Jobs

• Technology• I.E. Bioinformatics • New innovations does not mean new jobs• I.E. Communication Towers