Discipline 06 · Students and educators
A professional home before you have picked a path.
You are training for a career in the justice system, but you don't have to choose a single discipline yet. A cross-discipline association can grow with you.
What students tell us
Which discipline?
Criminal justice spans policing, corrections, forensics, law, and investigation. Most students don't know which path they will take, so a single-discipline association is a guess.
No network yet
As a student, you have few ways to meet working professionals or to see what each job is really like before you commit to one.
Shut out until hired
Many professional organizations require active employment in the field, which leaves out the people who are training to enter it.
What we are building
- Planned
Career pathways
Plain accounts from practitioners in each of the six disciplines: what the work involves, how people got there, and what licensing each path requires.
- Planned
Mentorship
Students and cadets paired with working professionals across disciplines.
- Planned
Support for educators
Case material and guest practitioners for criminal justice, forensic science, and pre-law programs.
Who this includes
Undergraduate and graduate students in criminal justice, criminology, forensic science, and pre-law, law students, police academy cadets, high school criminal justice students, and the professors, instructors, program directors, and training coordinators who teach them.
Educators: let's talk
If you run a criminal justice, forensic science, or pre-law program and want practitioners in your classroom, write to contact@uscli.org.