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It may be that (similar to what happened to the IT field in the '90's) this discipline is suffering from being too popular. I don't recall criminology as being as widely offered at univeristies in the 1980's as it is now. Is it the CSI effect? Whatever it is, there appears to be a significant competition for any position that is available. Most of these positions are government jobs (i.e. municipal police forces etc) that are currently under severe budget constraints.
I talked about this with my son who was casting about for a university major and had settled on criminology. My advice to him (which was largely ignored) was to aim towards a law degree if he was interested in the field. With law, you can always be a lawyer (criminal, real estate... there are many different kinds) you can hang your sign outside your house and be dependant on demand and market forces versus public budgets if you wanted to make a living.
Have you thought of that? Before you say it's too late, I'll just mention that my old gf graduated from university in 1983 with a Biology degree, worked as a bank teller for 4 or 5 years, quit the workforce after she got married, then got divorced, wrote her LSAT went to the University of Windsor (across the river from Detroit) Law School and hasn't looked back. She did this when she was about 37, and is currently legal council for the government of Ontario's Ministry of Labour. This was after 5 years as a corporate lawyer at Blake's / Casselmans on Bay Street in Toronto.
I think the message is, there is a lot of room to manouver in the criminal justice system, and you are one of the men and women who can do this. This is your story.
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