An interdisciplinary master's degree that delves into criminal behavior and its social adaptation

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All criminal policy decisions must be based on the study of what is related to crime, delinquency and deviant behavior. The master's degree in Forensic Criminal Dangerousness Profiles has a large number of professionals linked to the Administration of Justice, penitentiary institutions, Security Forces and Bodies, experts and human resources personnel who deal in an eminently practical way with the analysis of criminal conduct and the preparation of hazard profiles. 

The preparation of these profiles is a specialization that has a long international tradition in the criminological field. Criminal profiling investigates the mechanisms that lead an offender to cease his criminal activity, investigating the conditions in which it can be presumed that he will cease to be dangerous and his possibility of social adaptation. These issues, which not only arouse great social interest, but are essential in the design of criminal policy, are addressed in the URJC Master's Degree in Forensic Criminal Dangerousness Profiles from different theoretical perspectives and complementary disciplines that allow the student to obtain an overview and applied of the subjects taught. 

This master's degree offers the necessary training for the study of the factors that allow the construction of a hazard profile through the contribution of the scientific and methodological technique to be used, as well as its instrumentalization. With it, specific skills and knowledge are acquired for the understanding and analysis of the criminal dangerousness profile, the detection of potential security risks and their prevention. In addition, it investigates the techniques for the analysis of the testimony of perpetrators and victims, in the existing tools for the study of the crime scene and the elaboration of expertise in order to carry out an adequate presentation of the evidence in court.

Innovative and complete 

Throughout the itinerary of this master's degree, advanced training is developed for respect for fundamental rights in the implementation of criminal investigation, mainly within the framework of new technologies. 

It is an innovative interdisciplinary master's degree in which professionals and academics from areas of knowledge as varied as medicine, psychology, law, political science and criminology are combined to provide quality training, and which is mainly aimed at students from of those disciplines.