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The Internship curriculum of the Bachelor of Criminology has a workload of 12 ECTS credits, equal to 300 hours, 200 of which will be carried out in the place of the jobs, 50 hours are intended to prepare students in specific issues of professional work and the other 50 area intended preparation of the final report (50 hours). In the Prevention and Security mention, the handing out of an exercise related to professional ethics is added (20 hours).

The timetables for carrying out the practicum are stablished taking into accounts the needs of the job settlement.

Allocation

A list of available positions is published during the academic year. Students chose the available position by order of their average marks in the degree. Some positions have specific requirements.

In order for the student to be able to garantee a specific place, he can contact the entity himself in order to open a university collaboration agreement. Once it is verified that the place meets all the requirements, the opening of the agreement will be managed.

* Entities may vary vary every year but all places will always be maintained


Training project

Once the students is assigned to a specific place, a statement containing the educational aims of the practicum will be signed by the University coordinator of the practicum, the tutor of the student in the job placement and the student.

Specialization in crime prevention and security

Students that are enrolled in this specialization of the degree need to develop during the practicum the skills to develop and implement public policies that are useful to reduce crime, anti-social behaviour and to increase feeling of security among the public.

The skills that students need to reinforce during the practicum are the following:

-          Be able to analyse and explain crime problems

-          Be able to analyse and explain insecurity and fear of crime

-          Be able to design, implement  and evaluate prevention programs

For students that wished to obtain the Director of Security qualification the Practicum is mandatory.

 

Some of the places in the catalog in this mention and the functions to do are:

1.- Small and medium private security companies (the student performs the functions of "compliance officer", "fraud analyst", "loss prevention", "security and risk prevention")

2.- Private security multinationals (previous tasks, design of security systems, Human Resources Department)

3.- Hotels and private companies in the music and entertainment sector (tasks of Security Director)

4.- Local administration-Local Police (projects at the level of victimization surveys, security studies, prevention and intervention plans, criminal analysis, creation of criminal maps)

5.- Autonomous administration such as, for example, Mossos d'Esquadra (participation in research studies of the specific units of the MMEE and similar placements)

Specialization in sentence enforcement

Students enrolled in this specialization should be enable to develop group and personal programs aimed at enforcing criminal sanctions with the aim of promoting reduction of recidivism and community and victim restoration.

The skills that students need to reinforce during the practicum are the following

-          Be able to assess the criminogenic needs of offenders and write an intervention plan

-          Be able to write a pre-sentence report to judges

-          Be able to manage an effective supervision plan to a person serving a sentence

-          Be able to attend to the needs of the victim related to reparation, protection, participation and overcoming the harms of crime.

-          Be able to manage a restoration process and attend to the needs of the victims

Some examples of the places in our catalog in this mention are:

1.- Public field: A) Professional of the special body of the administration of justice in penitentiary centres. B) General Council of Justice: BCN Courts (VIDO) support in the preparation of criminological reports in cases of violence against women. C) Occupation promoter at the Centre d'iniciatives a la Reinserció participating in its process of socio-occupational integration in an open prison.

2.- Private field: Third Sector Entities that collaborate in criminal enforcement: A) Coordination of Dependent Units: elaboration and execution of the PIT (individual treatmentplan) of people sentenced in 3rd degree. B) Residential resource professional: preparation and first permits (2nd grade) support in the socio-occupational insertion of convicts in 3rd grade. C) Probation officer: in the courts of the Catalan territory where the monitoring of alternative criminal sanctions is carried out. Accompaniment in the execution of alternative penal execution sanctions: attention to penalties and motivational work. D) Drug addiction intervention: prevention, orientation and treatment of addictions. E) Reincorporation Program: socio-occupational support during the last phase of his sentence and post-penitentiary. F) Intercultural Mediation in Juvenile Justice Centres: restoration of criminal acts.

3.- Entities that provide care to the victim: A) Accompaniment to the victim of trafficking. B) Raising awareness in the prevention of child sexual abuse: development of training and awareness projects.

4.- Entities that provide care to people with different difficulties: A) Intervention with young people with conduct disorders: tasks of the rehabilitation unit. B) Intervention with relatives of people with mental disabilities. C) Intervention with children and young people who migrate alone who show themselves under the protection system. Intermediation with the community and execution of the educational intervention plan.

5.- Law field: A) Barcelona Bar Association: Coordinator of the Free Justice Services. Central and judicial headquarters of the judicial parties in Barcelona. B) Law firms: accompaniment in trials, review of files. Attendance at legal meetings, with clients preparing briefs (criminological and legal reports). Accompaniment on duty.