What exactly do forensic psychologists do?

[aswynn81]

I'm going to be starting my junior year of high school soon and i've been thinking a lot about college. The two things that have always really interested me have been psychology and criminals/law, so i've been seriously considering doing something along the lines of forensic psychology or criminology. My question is: What specifically do forensic psychologists do and where do they work? I've been google searching this for a long time and haven't found much, I know that a lot of them work in government agencies or private practices but that's about all i can find. Please if you know anything about this, let me know. I'm really interested in this but i also want to make sure that i will be able to get a job once i graduate. Thank you so much!

Before you say anything (because i know someone will): this has absolutely NOTHING to do with any TV show, i know that this job is nothing like it looks on criminal minds or anything else, so don't bring that up, please!

[eddis]

Most forensic psychologists will work with criminals and report to courts their findings, usually by performing various personality tests, etc. Often, if someone tries for a NGRI plea, or something like that, a psychologist will be called in.
You could also work with cops, doing evals of them after critical incidents (basically whenever they pull their gun).