Master's Degree in Applied Criminology
Barcelona, Spain
DURATION
1 up to 1 Years
LANGUAGES
English, Spanish
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
30 Jun 2025*
EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2025
TUITION FEES
EUR 28 / per credit **
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* Notifications of decisions: 14 July
** *27.67 euros per credit (82 euros for students from outside the EU and not residents of Spain). Prices for the 2024-2025 academic year
Key Summary
Introduction
The degree allows for three possible specializations of the utmost relevance: Public Security (indicated to familiarize oneself with environmental and social exclusion factors in crime and to learn about modern police analysis strategies); State and organizational crime (essential for identifying criminal opportunities and the cognitive and volitional biases that corporations can generate); and Criminological Intervention (prepares students to design intervention programs with criminals immersed in different penitentiary programs or alternative measures with the aim of reducing the possibility of recidivism). You can also take an open path specialization.
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Curriculum
- To delve deeper into the study of the organizations and institutions of the Spanish penal system, as well as the functioning of the international criminal justice system.
- To provide students with detailed knowledge of the institutional and functional scenario in which criminology is developed, as well as its social, technological and cultural context.
- To train on public policies in the field of security and crime prevention through learning the foundations of contemporary criminal policy, the design, analysis and evaluation of security policies, as well as on the different political actors in the information society.
- To facilitate the learning of current trends in applied criminological research, such as developmental criminology, criminal profiling, gender criminology, or the assessment and treatment of high-risk offenders for an adequate diagnosis or delinquency and victimization; as well as their corresponding contributing factors.
- Provide students with the knowledge and methodological tools necessary for criminal investigation or the presentation of intelligence reports in specialized police units.
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Career Opportunities
Master's students will be able to develop all the professional skills inherent in areas traditionally related to Criminology, such as associations, observatories or consultancies dedicated to advising and supervising the activity of criminal and state security agencies, in the field of public and private security, the penitentiary system, among others. The main professional options are that of criminologist, researcher and university teacher.