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Hiring Criminology and Criminal Justice Academics: The Perceived Importance of Job Candidates’ Attributes

Scant research is currently available on the characteristics that criminology and criminal justice (CCJ) departments believe are important for academic job applicants. The current study uses a nationally representative sample of faculty members to assess the perceived importance of a wide array of applicants’ attributes, to explore the extent of agreement about valued attributes among current criminal justice and criminology faculty members, and to analyze correlates of these ratings. We find that many characteristics are considered at least moderately important. At the extremes, involvement in research, publishing, and teaching stand out as particularly important, and demographic characteristics are relatively unimportant. We also find considerable consensus among faculty regarding the value of various candidate attributes. We discuss our implications in terms of what they reveal about preparing for the job market and about the discipline of criminal justice more broadly.