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Education & Training · Updated Aug 2026

Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement Teachers, Postsecondary

Teach courses in criminal justice, corrections, and law enforcement administration. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.

JVS 2.0.0-phase4b
AI Exposure
71/100
High

How much of this occupation’s work can be materially affected by current AI systems.

Replacement Risk
64/100
High

How likely exposure is to translate into reduced human demand.

Includes provisional estimates for AI adoption pressure and labour-market resilience. How this is measured

Evidence quality
Confidence81/100
Task coverage82%

Confidence reflects task coverage, mapping and capability-evidence quality, and how much of the score rests on provisional inputs.

Task-level evidence

What is driving the score?

Occupation scores are built from the task mix—not a single prediction about a job title.

JVS 2.0.0-phase4b
TaskImportanceAI impactExposure
Evaluate and grade students' class work, assignments, and papers.High
75
Maintain student attendance records, grades, and other required records.High
72
Prepare and deliver lectures to undergraduate or graduate students on topics such as criminal law, defensive policing, and investigation techniques.High
60
Keep abreast of developments in the field by reading current literature, talking with colleagues, and participating in professional conferences.High
74
Maintain regularly scheduled office hours to advise and assist students.High
70
Compile, administer, and grade examinations, or assign this work to others.High
75
Advise students on academic and vocational curricula and on career issues.High
62
Perform administrative duties, such as serving as department head.Medium
75
Prepare course materials, such as syllabi, homework assignments, and handouts.High
75
Supervise undergraduate or graduate teaching, internship, and research work.Medium
75
Plan, evaluate, and revise curricula, course content, course materials, and methods of instruction.High
74
Collaborate with colleagues to address teaching and research issues.Medium
73
Conduct research in a particular field of knowledge and publish findings in professional journals, books, or electronic media.Medium
73
Serve on academic or administrative committees that deal with institutional policies, departmental matters, and academic issues.Medium
75
Compile bibliographies of specialized materials for outside reading assignments.Medium
75
Participate in student recruitment, registration, and placement activities.Medium
64
Provide professional consulting services to government or industry.Medium
75
Most exposed

Where AI can do more

Routine, digitized, and highly repeatable tasks face the greatest pressure.

  1. Evaluate and grade students' class work, assignments, and papers.75
  2. Compile, administer, and grade examinations, or assign this work to others.75
  3. Perform administrative duties, such as serving as department head.75
  4. Prepare course materials, such as syllabi, homework assignments, and handouts.75
Hardest to automate

Where people still matter

These tasks score lowest on automation feasibility—physical presence, judgement, accountability and real-world variability all resist end-to-end automation.

  1. Keep abreast of developments in the field by reading current literature, talking with colleagues, and participating in professional conferences.01
  2. Compile, administer, and grade examinations, or assign this work to others.02
  3. Perform administrative duties, such as serving as department head.03
  4. Prepare course materials, such as syllabi, homework assignments, and handouts.04
  5. Plan, evaluate, and revise curricula, course content, course materials, and methods of instruction.05
Where else this work leads

Related occupations

Occupations O*NET links to this one. Relatedness reflects shared work, not a claim that these roles are safer.

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Beyond AI capability

Adoption and labour-market outlook

Structural factors are kept separate from raw capability so you can see what actually resists automation. Adoption pressure and labour-market resilience are still provisional models—25% of this occupation’s replacement-risk weight rests on them.

Human dependency56
Physical dependency26
Adoption pressure58
Labour-market resilience58
Methodology & sources

O*NET 30.3 occupational data interpreted through the JobsVsAI capability, automation and structural-constraint models.

Confidence81/100
CalculatedAug 21, 2026
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