Major and professional qualification:

Specialisation: Crime Prevention and Resocialisation of Criminals
Major: Criminology and Crime Prevention Policies
Qualification: MA in Criminology and Crime Prevention

Practical training courses:

The programme provides internships at:

- the Research Institute of Forensic Science and Academy of the Ministry of Interior

- the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Chief Execution of Penalties Directorate at the Ministry of Justice

International mobility:

Erasmus+ programme

Graduate Student Competencies:

As a result of the quality training, graduates will have mastered systematic, in-depth and up-to-date knowledge of:

• crime as a socio-legal phenomenon by having studied and analysed its quantitative and qualitative characteristics;

• social determinants of crime;

• formation of a criminal personality;

• formation and implementation of policies for general, group and individual prevention;

• formation and implementation of policies to control crime as a negative social phenomenon;

• formation and implementation of policies for the resocialisation of criminally convicted persons;

• results of up-to-date research on the problems of prevention of both general crime and types of crime with the highest degree of public danger: transnational organised crime, terrorism, corruption, cybercrime.

Graduates will have acquired skills in:

• independent investigation of crime;

• implementation of policies for crime and corruption prevention and control;

• implementation of policies for the resocialisation of persons with criminal convictions;

• application of methodologies for criminological research and for national and international projects in the field of crime prevention.

Graduation:

Completion of studies takes place by defending a master’s dissertation or passing a state exam upon earning the required number of credits. GPA below 4.50 requires taking a state exam.

The graduation process complies with the NBU Standard for Educational and Qualification Degree Completion.

Occupation and possible positions:

Graduates pursue careers as:

• specialists (managerial and expert positions) in the public, private and non-governmental sectors for crime prevention and countermeasures;

• specialists (managerial and expert positions) in the public and non-governmental sectors for socialisation and resocialisation of criminally endangered and manifested persons;

• researchers in scientific units and university lecturers.

Department :

National and International Security