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| Application Deadline: | June 1 (EEA); March 1(Non EEA) | ||
| Annual Tuition Fee: | ≈ € 578 | ||
| Location: | Leuven / Belgium / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 12 months | Start Date: | September |
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| Credits (ECTS): | 60 | ||
| Languages: | Dutch English | ||
Location of University of Leuven
The Master in Criminology offers research-based, specialized, European, and internationallyoriented study of crime. Other subjects of study include different ways of dealing withcrime and the processes of (de)criminalization.
A strong link between education and research and an explicitly international orientationand comparative approach characterize the programme in Leuven. By writing a master'sthesis, students will specialize in one of three research areas: criminality and (in)security,person- and community-oriented criminology, or law enforcement. Furthermore,the programme aims to optimize critical-reflective methodological skills and attitudesto enable autonomous, constructive, and high-standing research and contributionsto the field.
The English-language Master in Criminology in Leuven boasts close cooperation betweenthe students and staff, whose expertise ranges across a wide range of topics, fromtheoretical to applied criminology. Students are closely guided in their master's thesis.
The programme focuses on international and EU policy developments in the area ofcriminal justice and criminology. It examines recent developments in criminologicaltheory, as well as their implications for national and international policy-making.
As a successful graduate of the Master in Criminology programme, you will obtain an assortmentof specialized and more in-depth theoretical insights into criminology. You will know factsconcerning the developments and (the possible solutions for) problems in policy andpractice of institutions that are involved in dealing with criminality. You will have developeda discerning mind and will recognize the importance of theoretical, methodological,and moral reflection. This guarantees both the quality of policy-making and the qualityof your own vocational practice.
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Goals:
- the criminological program provides an appealing specialized, European and internationally oriented and research-based study of crime and the way of dealing with it as well as the study of the processes of (de)criminalization
- to optimize methodological skills and attitudes in order to make autonomous constructive and high standing contributions to the field as well as further research possible
- an international and comparative approach has been highlighted in the Master program, bearing in mind however the characteristic Belgian situation
Final terms:
Knowledge: The graduates need 1) to obtain specialized and more in-depth theoretical insights into the criminology; 2) to know facts concerning the developments and (the possible solutions for) problems in policy and practice of institutions that are involved in dealing with criminality. 3) to have specialized knowledge of recent developments in the field of methodology that allows to examine the problems from a point of legal and empirical-criminological view.
Skills: The graduates must be able to make an autonomous contribution in the development in the search to solutions for complex social and individual questions on the field of crime and the treatment of crime. More specifically: to be able to formulate relevant challenges for further criminological research; to observe, detect and analyze the large variables and indicators; to collect information independently; to comment and report in a methodically founded statement; can possibly function in (multidisciplinary) surroundings with eye for its own input and the guarantee of its quality.
Attitude: the graduates need to develop a discerning mind and recognize the importance of theoretical, methodological and moral reflection, both to guarantee the quality of policymaking as the quality of the own vocational practice. From an ethical notion the students develop further sensitivity for the tensions which occur at the treatment of crime and (in)security, at the individual, institutional and social level on the one hand and between these levels on the other hand.
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Directly:
- Bachelor of Criminology
- Bachelor in de criminologische wetenschappen
- Bachelor in de rechten, afstudeerrichting criminologische wetenschappen
After "voorbereidingsprogramma" (57 to 60 ECTS):
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Human Sciences, i.e. Political en Social Sciences, Communication Sciences, Law, History, Arts, Archaeology, Literature, Eastern Studies, Linguistics, Classical Studies, Economics and Applied Economics, Theology, Philosophy, Canon law, Psychology and Educational Sciences
After preparatory programme (26 ECTS) Bachelor's or Master's degree in Human Sciences equivalent to Political en Social Sciences, Communication Sciences, Law, History, Arts, Archaeology, Literature, Eastern Studies, Linguistics, Classical Studies, Economics and Applied Economics, Theology, Philosophy, Canon law, Psychology and Educational Sciences, after admission decision: the admission procedure tends to check whether the student
- already had the advantage of a basic training in criminal law and criminal procedure (either regional, European or international)
- already had the advantage of sufficient methodology training (for at least 22 ECTS) in the field of setting up a scientific research, especially concerning research design, data collection, data analysis, reporting research and statistics
TOEFL (Computer-based test 250 pt., Internet-based test 100 pt., Paper-based test 600 pt.) or IELTS (7 - 7.5 pt.)
Additional Requirements
| Minimal degree required: | Bachelor's degree |
| Minimal amount of work experience | Not specified |
Language Proficiency
| IELTS Band: | 7.0 |
| TOEFL Paper-based: | 600 |
| TOEFL Computer-based: | 250 |
| TOEFL Internet-based: | 100 |
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