I get many emails and phone calls from students interested in pursuing forensic psychology as a career. There is surprisingly little information available online to answer these students' questions.

Mikeie Reiland is a staff writer for Education at Forbes Advisor. Before coming to Forbes Advisor, he wrote magazine journalism for publications like the Oxford American, Bitter Southerner, and Gravy.

Two reasons people are attracted to the field of forensic science are to help solve crimes and to see justice served. Forensic scientists collect evidence from crime scenes and analyze that evidence ...