Program Overview

Program Overview

The Maestría en Política Criminal (Master's in Criminal Policy) is a postgraduate program offered by the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). The program aims to form professionals with a high critical sense in the normative and empirical context, enabling them to design and evaluate state policies for the prevention and punishment of antisocial behaviors.

Program Objectives

The main objectives of the program are:

• To form professionals with a high critical sense in the context of criminal policy
• To enable students to design and evaluate state policies for the prevention and punishment of antisocial behaviors
• To initiate students in interdisciplinary research on public policies for social control

Program Structure

The program is structured into several areas of knowledge, including:

• Derecho Administrativo (Administrative Law)
• Derecho Ambiental (Environmental Law)
• Derecho Civil (Civil Law)
• Derecho Constitucional (Constitutional Law)
• Derecho de la Administración y Procuración de Justicia (Law of Administration and Justice)
• Derecho de la Información (Information Law)
• Derecho de la Propiedad Intelectual (Intellectual Property Law)
• Derecho de Menores (Juvenile Law)
• Derecho del Comercio Exterior (International Trade Law)
• Derecho Electoral (Election Law)
• Derecho Empresarial (Business Law)
• Derecho Familiar (Family Law)
• Derecho Financiero (Financial Law)
• Derecho Fiscal (Tax Law)
• Derecho Internacional Privado (Private International Law)
• Derecho Internacional Público (Public International Law)
• Derecho Laboral (Labor Law)
• Derecho Notarial y Registral (Notary and Registry Law)
• Derecho Penal (Criminal Law)
• Derecho Social (Social Law)
• Derechos Humanos (Human Rights)
• Filosofía del Derecho (Philosophy of Law)
• Género y Derecho (Gender and Law)
• Política Criminal (Criminal Policy)
• Sistema de Responsabilidad de Servidores Públicos (System of Responsibility for Public Servants)

Admission Requirements

To be admitted to the program, applicants must possess skills for analysis, discussion, and generation of specialized texts in legal sciences and social control, as well as the ability to problematize them as research topics.

Program Duration

The program lasts 4 semestres.

Area of Knowledge

The program belongs to the area of Ciencias Sociales (Social Sciences).

Entidades Participantes

The program involves the participation of several entities, including:

• Facultad de Derecho (Law School)
• Facultad de Estudios Superiores Acatlán (Acatlán Higher Education School)
• Facultad de Estudios Superiores Aragón (Aragón Higher Education School)
• Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas (Institute of Legal Research)

Grados que se Otorgan

The program awards the degree of Maestro en Política Criminal (Master's in Criminal Policy).

Perfil de Ingreso

To be admitted to the program, applicants must have skills for analysis, discussion, and generation of specialized texts in legal sciences and social control.

Perfil de Egreso

Graduates of the program will have knowledge of the latest developments in social control and skills to advise, formulate, or propose public policies in criminal matters and security, with an analytical, critical, and creative attitude in solving national agenda problems.

Perfil de Graduación

The graduate will be able to project, develop, and evaluate public policies in criminal, punitive, and social control matters in various state dependencies.