Hiring graduate criminologists can boost war against crime

Lawyers are the closest relatives of criminologists with explicit convergence in both training and service delivery. [iStockphoto]

The advancement in criminology education is a huge wave of specialisation we cannot ignore. It is one of the fast-blossoming disciplines in Kenyan universities and colleges, but the absorption of graduates into criminology jobs is not as quick as modern security challenges demand.

Despite the somewhat reluctant pace at which employing agencies are effecting the said adjustments, it is reported from various joints, where these graduates are already working, that the transformation in service delivery, passion for innovation, interpretation, and comprehension of security dynamics is a real revolution that stakeholders in both public and private sectors must uphold.