Master's Degree in Criminalistics and Forensic Sciences (association with Universidad Hemisferios) IMF Smart Education Ecuador

Complete the multidisciplinary knowledge of iter criminis , the path followed by the evidence from its collection at the crime scene to its treatment in the crime laboratory.

• Excellence scholarships up to 10%. Check conditions with your advisor.
• Online mode (with the possibility of quarterly meetings of an experimental practical nature, face-to-face in Quito)
• -5% for cash payment
• For 3rd grade university graduates. Opportunity for lawyers, justice operators, judicial servants, civil servants, experts and other graduates in Police Sciences, Medicine, Psychology, Biochemistry or Clinical Laboratory.

Program features

Qualification:

• Master in Criminalistics and Forensic Sciences from the University of Los Hemisferios (Fourth-level postgraduate degree authorized by CES and recognized by SENESCYT)

Approved:

• Professional Master in Criminalistics by IMF Academic Institution of Spain

Professional outings

This program seeks that the graduates of the Master in Criminalistics and Forensic Sciences can assume the functions and different tasks related to the investigation of crime, being able to assume different professional profiles, in:

• Judicial and Scientific Police Units, in the different police forces.
• Lawyers, within the criminal process.
• Judges and prosecutors, in the development of their work in the criminal process.
• Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Doctors, Chemists, Forensic Biologists, for the issuance of the expert opinions of their competence.

One of the main professional developments that the master's degree allows is the role of Judicial Expert.

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Knowledge

Multiple skills that will open doors for you.

The specific academic training of the Master's program in Criminalistics and Forensic Sciences, offers the professional the possibility of:

• Identify the different steps to follow at the crime scene, enclosure, identification of evidence, graphic representation, collection, transfer.
• Know the procedure and the guarantees inherent in the chain of custody of the evidence.
• Learn the specificities of certain vestiges, their significance in the process, their specific collection procedure, their study and dump in the appropriate expert report.
• Recognize the specific evidences that are typical of a road accident, as well as the specialties of the technical ocular inspection.
• Know the singularities of the lofoscopic evidence, the development of fingerprints at the scene, its formulation and comparison, as well as the jurisprudential requirements for its evidentiary validity.
• Understand the importance of the biological evidence, its classes, its possible significance, as well as the possibilities of DNA analysis in clarifying the facts.
• Distinguish the elements that require a chemical analysis in your research, especially in relation to explosives, drugs, chemical products.
• Understand the importance of the witness in the criminal investigation, both at the crime scene, and in its assessment throughout the criminal investigation through psychological expertise.
• Identify the procedural guarantees that the technical report must include in order to successfully contribute to the criminal process.
• Acquire the necessary preparation to practice as a judicial expert.
• Understand the importance of the witness in the criminal investigation, both at the crime scene, and in its assessment throughout the criminal investigation through psychological expertise.
• Identify the procedural guarantees that the technical report must include in order to successfully contribute to the criminal process.
• Acquire the necessary preparation to practice as a judicial expert.

Online Methodology

Effective learning experience:

Access through the Virtual Campus, in a simple, friendly and intuitive way, to all the didactic resources and contents necessary to achieve the development of the necessary competencies and skills.

Thanks to the design and the didactic sequence, the student determines the work load and rhythm, being able at all times through the platform to request the guidance and support of the teachers and tutors.

Personalized tutorials:

Tutorials, classes and virtual practical experiences in real time that allow students to interact with the teacher to develop practical and relevant aspects of the content of the subject.

Meetings and practical face-to-face experiences

Throughout the master's degree, students will be able to attend practical sessions of an experimental nature taught by international teachers in Quito.

(Bimonthly or quarterly face-to-face meetings on Saturday and Sunday compatible with professional activity)

Academic disposition:

The master's degree organizes the eleven subjects of which it is composed in two ordinary academic periods of 20 weeks duration. For this reason, the student has six weeks to achieve the learning objectives of each subject.

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Contents of the program

Forensic Genetics: Biological Evidence

• The collection, remission and conservation of biological vestiges. Chain of custody
• Introduction to biology and genetics. Guidance and certainty tests for the determination of biological fluids
• DNA extraction, quantification and amplification. Interpretation of an electropherogram
• Forensic genetics. Statistical evaluation and conclusions of genetic expertise. Alternative studies to nuclear DNA
• DNA databases. Use, applications and development of forensic intelligence. Mass sequencing

Lophoscopy

• Lofoscopy and lofogram. Basic concepts
• The lofoscopic review
• Dactyloscopy. Study of dactylograms
• The Automatic Identification System (SAID)
• Lofotecnia. The lofoscopic comparison

Weapons and Projectiles Analysis

• The firearm. Definition, evolution and classification
• Weapon mechanics
• Ammunition Metallic and semi-metallic cartridge. Nomenclature
• Identifying ballistics. Fundamentals. Bullet and pod injury processing computer systems
• Ballistics effects. Ballistic eye inspection. Reconstruction of trajectories

Documentscopy

• Introduction to the forensic study of documents
• Current techniques and instruments applied to the study of documents
• Modern letter and signature matching methods
• Methods for identifying alterations in documents
• Modern ink and document dating methods

Multimedia in Forensic Sciences

• The Image in Forensic Sciences
• Forensic Photography
• Audiovisual
• Forensic Acoustics
• Forensic infographic

On-site inspection

• Criminology, Criminalistics and Ocular Inspection in a broad sense (methodology)
• Cordonings and evidence search systems
• Ocular inspection in open and closed places. Primary, secondary and intermediate scenes
• Developers and reagents. Blood detectors. Special reference to the use of forensic lights
• Special eye inspections

Degree Plan

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

Road Criminalistics

• Criminology and road crime
• The sinister vial. Concept, types and elements involved
• Investigation of the scene of the road accident. Ocular inspection. Footprints and vestiges
• Reconstruction of the loss. Methodology and computer programs
• The road accident investigator

Expert reports and forensic criminologists

• The expert report: general aspects
• Police technical expertise
• The police technical report in the diagnosis of local security
• The forensic criminological report
• The forensic criminological report II: criminal areas

Procedural Investigation

• Criminal process
• Investigation criminal
• Proportionality and limitation of rights
• Limiting measures of rights

Psychological expertise

• Introduction to psychological expert evidence and criminal psychology
• Explanatory psychological theories of criminal behavior
• Mental disorders associated with the commission of crimes
• Assessment of the credibility of the witness statement
• Forensic psychological assessment of the victim

Digital Forensic Analysis

• Technological crime
• Digital data and the digital chain of custody
• Digital research
• Digital eye inspection and registration
• Forensic analysis

Expert Technical Report

• The expert report: Methodology and development
• Rights and duties of the expert
• Typology of experts and their characteristics
• The expert report as evidence
• The defense of the expert report

Basic statistics applied to forensic sciences

• One-dimensional data analysis
• Two-dimensional data analysis
• Regression and correlation
• Random variables and probability distributions
• Statistical sampling and estimation Statistical inference

Legal Medicine

• Medical legal expertise. Thanatology
• Medical legal study of the different types of injuries
• Medical legal study of sexual and gender violence
• Medical legal study of asphyxia
• Personal identification
• Forensic chemistry

Professional deontology

• Humanistic vision for technical management and professional ethics
• Ethics of public service facing the risks of arbitrariness and abuse of power
• Ethical responsibility for environmental care and other global problems
• Scope of the professional's responsibility

Admission profile

Given the nature of the program, third-level graduates will enter.

Professionals with a third-level degree in Law, although it is also appropriate for:

Justice operators, judicial servants, public defenders, officials of the National Service of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences (SNMLCF), experts of the National Police, experts accredited before the National Council of the Judiciary, and other graduates in Police Sciences, Medicine, Psychology , Biochemistry or Clinical Laboratory, related to criminal investigation and expertise.

Also other professionals who have a third-level degree in a different broad field, accrediting experience in commercial, administrative or managerial positions, can access the master's degree.