Mission

The Master in Criminology endorses a special mission: to make a better world of democracy. It means that the Master students take responsibility for developing a critical criminological thought process that is necessary for a democracy to be a home for security and fraternity.

Program Educational Objectives

1. Lawyers and non­lawyers graduates in criminology will be able (a) to engage in research in criminology; (b) to effectively participate in the penal legal profession, and (c) to effectively participate in rehabilitating criminals in general, and prisoners in particular.
2. Lawyers graduates in criminology will be able to assess the level of the defendant’s criminological threat, with the aim of fixing equitable penalties: (a) as criminal judges (proving that the degree a defendant’s criminological threat is high), either at prosecution level (general prosecutor), or at investigation level (investigating judge, indictment division), or at judgment level (assizes court or at all degrees of criminal jurisdictions for misdemeanors); (b) as criminal lawyers: proving that the degree of the client’s criminological threat is not high, and (c) as judiciary police: to be able to detect the criminological threat.
3. Non­lawyer graduates in criminology will have the ability to become (a) assistants to criminal judges or lawyers, and to assess a defendant’s criminological threat; (b) assistants to medical examiners to participate in operating medico­legal autopsies; (c) assistants to medical experts in courts, to assess a defendant’s or victim’s mental health; (d) assistants to psychologists, psychiatrists or sexologists to study a defendant’s or victim’s mental health, and (e) activists in non­ governmental organizations in fighting violence, sexual abuse, sexual harassment, etc.

Program Outcomes

a. Students will acquire an ability to draft detainee assessment briefs.
b. An ability to submit projects of law or bills for the prevention of crime.
c. An ability to draft criminals’ mental health assessment.
d. An ability to assist in medico­legal autopsies.