Master in Criminalistics and Forensic Sciences

Facing new professional challenges that allow us to transform the environment in which we live and carry out our work requires solid training. An innovative and quality training, such as the Master's Degree in Criminalistics and Forensic Sciences from the Universidad Hemisferios-IMF Smart Education.

The Master's Degree in Criminalistics and Forensic Sciences at UHemisferios IMF is a fourth-level program that seeks from a multidisciplinary point of view (Law, Biology, Chemistry, Medicine, Psychology, Criminology, etc.) to complete the in-depth knowledge of iter criminis, the path followed by the evidence from its collection at the crime scene to its treatment in the crime laboratory.

The Master's degree studies and delves into the singularities of one of the most important parts of Criminal Investigation: Criminalistics. Addressing field work (crime scene) and, in the laboratory (evidence treatment), from a comprehensive vision.

The criminalistics professional acquires the necessary skills and abilities to prepare the appropriate technical report that allows that vestige collected at the scene, treated in the laboratory, to be transformed into that evidence that allows destroying or reinforcing the presumption of innocence of the alleged perpetrator of the crime investigated. .

forensic biology

1. Collection, submission and conservation of biological remains. The chain of custody.
2. Introduction to biology and genetics. Guidance and certainty tests for the determination of biological fluids.
3. DNA extraction, quantification and amplification. Capillary electrophoresis and interpretation of genetic profile and electropherogram.
4. Statistical evaluation and conclusions of genetic expertise. Alternative studies to nuclear DNA (Y chromosome haplotype, mitochondrial DNA and X chromosome). Forensic genetics. as evidence of prosecution for the judicial authority.
5. DNA databases. Use, applications and development of forensic intelligence. Massive sequencing.

Dactyloscopy

1. Lofoscopy and lophograms: basic concepts.
2. The lophoscopic review.
3. Fingerprinting: study of fingerprints. Systems, the delta and the core.
4. Lophotechnics. The lophoscopic comparison. Analysis and comparison of fingerprints.
5. The AFIS/SAID automatic fingerprint identification system

Ballistic expertise

1. The firearm. Definition, evolution and classification.
2. Weapon mechanics.
3. The cartridge.
4. Identification ballistics.
5. Effects ballistics.

Graphics and documentation

1. The comparison of letters and signatures.
2. The structure of matter. Paper and inks.
3. Scientific methods applied to documentology.
4. The document and documentary manipulation.
5. Modern methods of dating inks and documents.

forensic image

1. Forensic photography at the scene.
2. Photographic camera.
3. Forensic photography of latent remains.
4. Forensic video and audio.
5. Forensic infographic.

Crime scene inspection

1. Criminology, criminalistics and ocular inspection in a broad sense.
2. Cordons and evidence search systems.
3. The evidence. Eye inspection in open and closed places. Primary, secondary and intermediate scenes.
4. Developers and reagents. Blood detection. Special reference to the use of forensic lights.
5. Special ocular inspections, chain of custody

Road accidents

1. Criminology and road crime.
2. The road accident. Concept, types and intervening elements.
3. Road forensics. Study of the accident. The accident.
4. Investigation of the scene of the road accident. Ocular inspection.
5. Reconstruction of the accident. Software.
6. Reports. The road accident investigator.

Digital forensics

1. Technological crime.
2. Digital research.
3. Computer forensics: digital evidence and the digital chain of custody.
4. Digital eye inspection.
5. Forensic analysis.

Criminal process and investigation

1. Criminal process
2. Investigation criminal.
3. Proportionality and limitation of rights.
4. Measures limiting rights.

Forensic psychology

1. Introduction to psychological expert evidence and criminal psychology.
2. Psychological theories explanatory of criminal behavior.
3. Mental disorders associated with the commission of crimes.
4. Psychology of testimony: assessment of the credibility of witnesses' statements.
5. Forensic psychological assessment of the victim.

Criminological report

1. The expert report: general aspects.
2. The police technical expertise.
3. The police technical report in the diagnosis of local security.
4. The forensic criminological report (I).
5. The forensic criminological report (II): criminal areas.

Forensic audit

1. Analysis of risks and threats in the company.
2. Physical, electronic and logical security.
3. Implementation of a risk prevention program in the company.
4. Organization of a security department in the company.
5. Threat response systems.

Statistics applied to forensic science

1. One-dimensional data analysis.
2. Two-dimensional data analysis. Regression and correlation.
3. Random variables and probability distributions.
4. Sampling and statistical estimation.
5. Statistical inference.

Forensic Medicine

1. Medical-legal expertise. Thanatology.
2. Medical-legal study of the different types of injuries.
3. Medico-legal aspects of toxicology.
4. Medical-legal study of asphyxiation.
5. Personal identification.

Professional ethics

1. Fundamental notions of ethics.
2. The human good.
3. Moral subject: inclinations, tendencies and passions.
4. Nature, structure and valuation of voluntary action.
5. Freedom and moral habits.
6. Moral knowledge.

Degree plan

1. Design and implementation of projects with applied research and/or development components.
2. Design and writing of high-level professional articles.
3. Analysis of practical models for the development of the complex exam.

Salidas profesionales

El presente programa busca que los graduados de la Maestría en Criminalística y Ciencias Forenses puedan asumir las funciones y diferentes tareas relacionadas con la investigación del crimen, pudiendo asumir diferentes perfiles profesionales, en:

• Unidades de Policía Judicial y Científica, en los diferentes cuerpos policiales.
• Abogados, en el seno del proceso penal
• Jueces y fiscales, en el desarrollo de su labor en el proceso penal
• Psiquiatras, Psicólogos, Médicos, Químicos, Biólogos forenses, para la emisión de los dictámenes periciales propios de su competencia. Uno de los principales desarrollos profesionales que permite la maestría es la función de Perito Judicial.