About The Industry
Do you like to help protect other people's safety? Do you want to help enforce the law? This industry includes careers in planning, managing, and providing legal, public safety, corrections, protective services, and homeland security, including professional and technical support. Careers in the law, public safety, corrections & security industry involve protecting people and enforcing rules. Many occupations in this industry typically require a high school diploma or equivalent. However, specific designations range from less than a high school diploma and short-term on-the-job training for occupations such as security guards to a doctoral or professional degree, 5 or more years of work experience in a related occupation, and short-term on-the-job training for judges, magistrate judges, and magistrates.
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Forensic Science Technicians
Industries: Law, Public Safety, Corrections & Security
Collect, identify, classify, and analyze physical evidence related to criminal investigations. Perform tests on weapons or substances, such as fiber, hair, and tissue to determine significance to investigation. May testify as expert witnesses on evidence or crime laboratory techniques. May serve as specialists in area of expertise, such as ballistics, fingerprinting, handwriting, or biochemistry.
Probation Officers and Correctional Treatment Specialists
Industries: Law, Public Safety, Corrections & Security
Provide social services to assist in rehabilitation of law offenders in custody or on probation or parole. Make recommendations for actions involving formulation of rehabilitation plan and treatment of offender, including conditional release and education and employment stipulations.
Lawyers
Industries: Law, Public Safety, Corrections & Security
Represent clients in criminal and civil litigation and other legal proceedings, draw up legal documents, or manage or advise clients on legal transactions. May specialize in a single area or may practice broadly in many areas of law.
Judicial Law Clerks
Industries: Law, Public Safety, Corrections & Security
Assist judges in court or by conducting research or preparing legal documents.
Administrative Law Judges, Adjudicators, and Hearing Officers
Industries: Law, Public Safety, Corrections & Security
Conduct hearings to recommend or make decisions on claims concerning government programs or other government-related matters. Determine liability, sanctions, or penalties, or recommend the acceptance or rejection of claims or settlements.
Arbitrators, Mediators, and Conciliators
Industries: Law, Public Safety, Corrections & Security
Facilitate negotiation and conflict resolution through dialogue. Resolve conflicts outside of the court system by mutual consent of parties involved.
Judges, Magistrate Judges, and Magistrates
Industries: Law, Public Safety, Corrections & Security
Arbitrate, advise, adjudicate, or administer justice in a court of law. May sentence defendant in criminal cases according to government statutes or sentencing guidelines. May determine liability of defendant in civil cases. May perform wedding ceremonies.
Paralegals and Legal Assistants
Industries: Law, Public Safety, Corrections & Security
Assist lawyers by investigating facts, preparing legal documents, or researching legal precedent. Conduct research to support a legal proceeding, to formulate a defense, or to initiate legal action.
Court Reporters
Industries: Law, Public Safety, Corrections & Security
Use verbatim methods and equipment to capture, store, retrieve, and transcribe pretrial and trial proceedings or other information. Includes stenocaptioners who operate computerized stenographic captioning equipment to provide captions of live or prerecorded broadcasts for hearing-impaired viewers.
Title Examiners, Abstractors, and Searchers
Industries: Law, Public Safety, Corrections & Security
Search real estate records, examine titles, or summarize pertinent legal or insurance documents or details for a variety of purposes. May compile lists of mortgages, contracts, and other instruments pertaining to titles by searching public and private records for law firms, real estate agencies, or title insurance companies.
Emergency Medical Technicians and Paramedics
Industries: Law, Public Safety, Corrections & Security
Assess injuries, administer emergency medical care, and extricate trapped individuals. Transport injured or sick persons to medical facilities.
First-Line Supervisors of Correctional Officers
Industries: Law, Public Safety, Corrections & Security
Directly supervise and coordinate activities of correctional officers and jailers.
First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives
Industries: Law, Public Safety, Corrections & Security
Directly supervise and coordinate activities of members of police force.
Municipal Fire Fighting and Prevention Supervisors
Industries: Law, Public Safety, Corrections & Security
Supervise fire fighters who control and extinguish municipal fires, protect life and property, and conduct rescue efforts.
Forest Fire Fighting and Prevention Supervisors
Industries: Law, Public Safety, Corrections & Security
Supervise fire fighters who control and suppress fires in forests or vacant public land.
Municipal Firefighters
Industries: Law, Public Safety, Corrections & Security
Control and extinguish municipal fires, protect life and property and conduct rescue efforts.
Forest Firefighters
Industries: Law, Public Safety, Corrections & Security
Control and suppress fires in forests or vacant public land.
Fire Inspectors
Industries: Law, Public Safety, Corrections & Security
Inspect buildings and equipment to detect fire hazards and enforce state and local regulations.
Fire Investigators
Industries: Law, Public Safety, Corrections & Security
Conduct investigations to determine causes of fires and explosions.
Forest Fire Inspectors and Prevention Specialists
Industries: Law, Public Safety, Corrections & Security
Enforce fire regulations, inspect forest for fire hazards and recommend forest fire prevention or control measures. May report forest fires and weather conditions.
Correctional Officers and Jailers
Industries: Law, Public Safety, Corrections & Security
Guard inmates in penal or rehabilitative institutions in accordance with established regulations and procedures. May guard prisoners in transit between jail, courtroom, prison, or other point. Includes deputy sheriffs and police who spend the majority of their time guarding prisoners in correctional institutions.
Police Detectives
Industries: Law, Public Safety, Corrections & Security
Conduct investigations to prevent crimes or solve criminal cases.
Police Identification and Records Officers
Industries: Law, Public Safety, Corrections & Security
Collect evidence at crime scene, classify and identify fingerprints, and photograph evidence for use in criminal and civil cases.
Criminal Investigators and Special Agents
Industries: Law, Public Safety, Corrections & Security
Investigate alleged or suspected criminal violations of Federal, state, or local laws to determine if evidence is sufficient to recommend prosecution.
Immigration and Customs Inspectors
Industries: Law, Public Safety, Corrections & Security
Investigate and inspect persons, common carriers, goods, and merchandise, arriving in or departing from the United States or between states to detect violations of immigration and customs laws and regulations.
Intelligence Analysts
Industries: Law, Public Safety, Corrections & Security
Gather, analyze, or evaluate information from a variety of sources, such as law enforcement databases, surveillance, intelligence networks or geographic information systems. Use intelligence data to anticipate and prevent organized crime activities, such as terrorism.
Fish and Game Wardens
Industries: Law, Public Safety, Corrections & Security
Patrol assigned area to prevent fish and game law violations. Investigate reports of damage to crops or property by wildlife. Compile biological data.
Parking Enforcement Workers
Industries: Law, Public Safety, Corrections & Security
Patrol assigned area, such as public parking lot or city streets to issue tickets to overtime parking violators and illegally parked vehicles.
Police Patrol Officers
Industries: Law, Public Safety, Corrections & Security
Patrol assigned area to enforce laws and ordinances, regulate traffic, control crowds, prevent crime, and arrest violators.
Sheriffs and Deputy Sheriffs
Industries: Law, Public Safety, Corrections & Security
Enforce law and order in rural or unincorporated districts or serve legal processes of courts. May patrol courthouse, guard court or grand jury, or escort defendants.
Transit and Railroad Police
Industries: Law, Public Safety, Corrections & Security
Protect and police railroad and transit property, employees, or passengers.
Animal Control Workers
Industries: Law, Public Safety, Corrections & Security
Handle animals for the purpose of investigations of mistreatment, or control of abandoned, dangerous, or unattended animals.
Private Detectives and Investigators
Industries: Law, Public Safety, Corrections & Security
Gather, analyze, compile and report information regarding individuals or organizations to clients, or detect occurrences of unlawful acts or infractions of rules in private establishment.
Gaming Surveillance Officers and Gaming Investigators
Industries: Law, Public Safety, Corrections & Security
Act as oversight and security agent for management and customers. Observe casino or casino hotel operation for irregular activities such as cheating or theft by either employees or patrons. May use one-way mirrors above the casino floor, cashier's cage, and from desk. Use of audio/video equipment is also common to observe operation of the business. Usually required to provide verbal and written reports of all violations and suspicious behavior to supervisor.
Security Guards
Industries: Law, Public Safety, Corrections & Security
Guard, patrol, or monitor premises to prevent theft, violence, or infractions of rules. May operate x-ray and metal detector equipment.
Crossing Guards
Industries: Law, Public Safety, Corrections & Security
Guide or control vehicular or pedestrian traffic at such places as streets, schools, railroad crossings, or construction sites.
Lifeguards, Ski Patrol, and Other Recreational Protective Service Workers
Industries: Law, Public Safety, Corrections & Security
Monitor recreational areas, such as pools, beaches, or ski slopes to provide assistance and protection to participants.
Retail Loss Prevention Specialists
Industries: Law, Public Safety, Corrections & Security
Implement procedures and systems to prevent merchandise loss. Conduct audits and investigations of employee activity. May assist in developing policies, procedures, and systems for safeguarding assets.
Police, Fire, and Ambulance Dispatchers
Industries: Law, Public Safety, Corrections & Security
Operate radio, telephone, or computer equipment at emergency response centers. Receive reports from the public of crimes, disturbances, fires, and medical or police emergencies. Relay information to law enforcement and emergency response personnel. May maintain contact with caller until responders arrive.
Legal Secretaries
Industries: Law, Public Safety, Corrections & Security
Perform secretarial duties using legal terminology, procedures, and documents. Prepare legal papers and correspondence, such as summonses, complaints, motions, and subpoenas. May also assist with legal research.