For some reason I was under the impression that the popularity of Law and Order, CSI, and other crime solving shows had lead to an overabundance of eager grad students wanting to study crime... but according to an
article in IHE, demand for criminologists currently exceeds the supply. Why the demand? Because
undergraduates want to study crime... dangerous, sexy crime...
Undergraduates flock to courses about crime . . . “Undergraduate enrollment is the coin of the realm,” Uggen said, and criminology courses produce the numbers with which a department chair can make “a much stronger claim to a faculty line.”
So if nobody wants to read your boring family studies ethnography, consider studying criminals instead.
For some reason I was under the impression that the popularity of Law and Order, CSI, and other crime solving shows had lead to an overabundance of eager grad students wanting to study crime... but according to an article in IHE, demand for criminologists currently exceeds the supply. Why the demand? Because undergraduates want to study crime... dangerous, sexy crime...
