Skills
Criminal Justice Professor Skills & Tools
The technical skills, people skills and tools employers look for in criminal justice professors, and how to build and show them.
Criminal Justice Professors need technical skills such as criminology, justice system knowledge, and research methods, plus people skills like communication and objectivity. They also use tools such as Crime databases and Statistical software.
Technical (hard) skills
- Criminology
- Justice system knowledge
- Research methods
- Statistics
- Policy analysis
- Curriculum design
People (soft) skills
- Communication
- Objectivity
- Mentoring
- Facilitation
Tools, equipment and technology
- Crime databases
- Statistical software
- GIS
- Learning management systems
- Case studies
- Presentation tools
Skills in action: common tasks
These step-by-step guides show how criminal justice professors put their skills to work:
How to show these skills on a resume
- Lead your skills section with the technical skills from the job posting, for example, “Criminology” and “Justice system knowledge.”
- Prove soft skills with results: instead of listing “communication,” describe a situation where you used it.
- List credentials such as Ph.D. in criminology near the top, with the issuing organization and date.
- Use the employer’s vocabulary. Our criminal justice professor glossary covers the terms hiring managers expect.
How to build these skills
Formal training, supervised practice and certification are the most direct routes. Our Criminal Justice Professor training introduces each of these skills with plain-language lessons, procedures and a final knowledge check: a strong foundation before hands-on training or your first day.