Master

Criminology and Criminalistics

Duration: frontal lessons (200 hours)

 

Blended Modality: 13 weekends (alternate weeks). Friday (14.15 - 18.00) and Saturday (9.30 - 18.00)

CFU: 12

Project work, case study, exercises, laboratories, tests, soft skill, individual study: 400 hours

Cost: 4.900 €

Start of the course: November 2023

The Master is at the qualification stage in accordance with UNI 11783:2020, through a certification process conducted by KHC-Know How Certification.

 

TRAINING OBJECTIVES

The Executive Master in Criminology and Criminalistics stems from the need to offer an innovative answer to an ever-growing demand for training in the sector of science and investigative techniques. The teaching offer of the master provides competencies related to the field of law, psychopathology, criminology and criminalistics; making up a theoretical-practical learning patway with the ambitious goal of  training the criminologists of the future as professional profiles able to interact in the forensic field as well as in the urban space (for the purpose of serving territorial policies and political collectiveness) and the cyber space (particularly vulnerable to cyber attacks and cybercrime).

TARGET STUDENTS

The Executive Master is aimed at undergraduate and graduate students, and in particular at:

  • specialists and experts im criminal investigation and criminological analysis;
  • exponents of the law enforcements and the penitentiary police;
  • magistrates;
  • lawyers;
  • court experts and technical advisors;
  • law firm consultants and law enforcement consultants;
  • psychologists, psychotherapists;
  • forensic experts;
  • architects and urban planners;
  • engineers and experts in the field of cybersecurity;
  • private detectives;
  • professionals aiming to enhance their expertise in the field of cybersecurity, security and intelligence.

JOB OPPORTUNITIES

Upon completion of the learning pathway, the candidates will be able to pursue the following careers:

  • court expert and technical advisor;
  • law firm consultant and law enforcement consultant (preliminary investigation phase and process);
  • consultant for Public administrations, associations and private structures operating in the field of education, criminological and/or behavioural analysis;
  • consultant for planning and management of urban security and redevelopment of the territory;
  • consultant of public structures operating in the field of prevention of deviance and criminality;
  • consultant in the field of cybersecurity.

PROGRAMME OF THE COURSE

Criminal phenomenology

  • The profession of the criminologist according to international standards
  • Organized criminality and mafia crime
  • Domestic and international terrorism
  • fraudulent crimes and corruption
  • child abuse and pedopornography
  • Stalking
  • Domestic violence
  • Infanticide, parricide, matricide
  • Feminicide
  • Sexual offences
  • Serial killings 
  • Mass shootings and mass murders
  • Ritualistic crimes

Legal area

  • Criminal law: subjects of criminological interest
  • The felony and the offender
  • The investigations
  • The special evidentiary hearing 
  • The preliminary hearing
  • The role of the court-appointed technical consultant and the expert witness
  • Interrogation of the suspects
  • Interrogation of the persons providing information and testimonies 
  • Interrogation of minors in the proceedings for sexual abuse
  • Telephone tapping

Criminalistics 

  • Analysis of the crime scene
  • Forensic legal medicine
  • Forensic genetics
  • Forensic chemistry and toxicology
  • Forensic botanics and entomology
  • Forensic Archaeology
  • Judicial graphology
  • Ballistics and weapon investigation
  • Undercover operations
  • Digital forensics
  • Social Network Analysis

Forensic psychology and psychodiagnostics

  • Investigative psychology and criminology
  • Criminal profiling
  • The role of the forensic psychologist 
  • Forensic Psychiatry
  • Techniques of forensic pyshcodiagnostics
  • Psychological Autopsy

Cybercrime and cybersecurity

  • Tools and technologies of cybersecurity
  • Cybercrimes
  • Deep and dark web
  • Techniques and tacticts for cyber attacks
  • Artificial intelligence, humanoid robot and cyber security
  • Cyber threat intelligence and profiling of the attacker 

Public order and urban security

  • Security planning in support of urban planners
  • Contain and contrast of urban crime
  • Juvenile delinquency in a urban context
  • Illegal immigration and criminality

Project work

Visits to technical-scientific facilities and laboratories, reconstruction of the crime scene, simulation of a trial, analysis of practical cases of voluntary manslaughter and vehicular homicide, cold case investigations, forensic archaeology visits, defensive and offensive cyber warfare

 

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