Criminal Justice

Criminal Justice

Renee Swartz

CRJS 105

May 1, 2016

Michael Collum

Blue Collar crime

Blue collar crime is considered as a lower class which crimes harms the victim and requires the criminal to be present at the scene of a crime. Blue collar crime causes bodily harm or direct damage and is done directly to the victim. Examples would be Robbery, Rape, Murder, Theft and Assault.

White Collar Crime

White collar crime does not directly harm the victim and does not require the criminal to be present at the scene of the crime and is a higher class crime. Examples would be Fraud, Embezzlement, Identity Theft, and Income tax evasion.

Criminalists have an important part in the justice field. They collect, preserve, and interpret evidence found at crime scenes. Their job is to reconstruct the crime from the evidence. To become a criminalist one must obtain a Bachelor’s degree in biological, physical, or forensic sciences, as well as have accumulated a minimum of twenty four semester hours of chemistry, biology and math. (Becoming a Criminalist: How to become a Criminalist, n.d.) Criminalist can work in the public sector in local police departments or sheriff departments, on a regional level at state crime labs and medical examiners offices and at the federal level for the FBI, DEA, and CIA. They may also teach at public colleges and universities. Public sector I think I would go for a state lab I would help and sort evidence on the facts of the crimes. Criminalist may also find similar work in the private sector working for independent forensic labs as well as teaching at private schools. These would be jobs that would have smaller workforce. (Cornett, n.d.) In a private sector I would like to teach a private school or university and teach the skills and knowledge needed preparing people to enter this kind of field of work.

A criminologist is a person who studies the behavior patterns, backgrounds, and sociological trends of criminals and those accused of...