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Criminal profilers on television may have you considering this as a new career path. After all, the investigations Spencer Reid conducts on "Criminal Minds" are intellectually stimulating, do good, ...

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Criminal investigators are a crucial part of any working society—they get justice for victims and work to put lawbreakers in jail. Although criminal investigation can be a mentally and physically ...