Criminology - Work Experience

I want to do criminology and doing my highers. Where would you volunteer for work experience? Tried police station and court and they don’t take in Scotland.

We are based in England so any Scottish difference I won’t know about, but my daughter did a week of work experience in a defence law firm. Despite being mostly for car crimes and stuff, she had some amazing opportunities including attending two different types of court, being allowed to read through the case files of (an old) murder charge and being present in the initial interview of an accused child rapist. She knew quickly that law was not for her and the work experience was really valuable in helping her confirm this, but if you were interested in this kind of thing it would be wonderful. She found them by googling criminal law firms, researching them a bit and emailing them. She did this early in the year though (September/October time and had her placement in July) so be flexible with when you could do it.
For regular, long-term, weekly volunteering you could try organisations that work with vulnerable people or those on the fringes of society (homeless charities, rehab centres, mental health outreach, victim support, helping ex-offenders into employment etc)

I want to do criminology and doing my highers. Where would you volunteer for work experience? Tried police station and court and they don’t take in Scotland.

We are based in England so any Scottish difference I won’t know about, but my daughter did a week of work experience in a defence law firm. Despite being mostly for car crimes and stuff, she had some amazing opportunities including attending two different types of court, being allowed to read through the case files of (an old) murder charge and being present in the initial interview of an accused child rapist. She knew quickly that law was not for her and the work experience was really valuable in helping her confirm this, but if you were interested in this kind of thing it would be wonderful. She found them by googling criminal law firms, researching them a bit and emailing them. She did this early in the year though (September/October time and had her placement in July) so be flexible with when you could do it.
For regular, long-term, weekly volunteering you could try organisations that work with vulnerable people or those on the fringes of society (homeless charities, rehab centres, mental health outreach, victim support, helping ex-offenders into employment etc)