10 Basic skills which must be a criminologist for the 21st century

-The UDIMA offers a set of guidelines, aimed at students or prospective students who choose to pursue the Criminology degree, with the objective to know those basics a criminologist for the 21st century should not overlook. The paper has been prepared by the Professor of Criminology degree in UDIMA, Rodolfo Gordillo.

-Social intelligence, scientific updating or deductive and inductive capacity are some of the competencies that are explained in the Decalogue.

Madrid, March 2012.- UDIMA (distance of Madrid University) has published a Decalogue which explains the 10 core competencies to be criminologists who wish to exercise as such in the 21st century.

This work has been prepared by Rodolfo Gordillo, Professor of the grade of Criminology of the UDIMA, who explains that Criminology, despite revolve around an object of study, the crime rate in recent times has been expanding its framework for action, in parallel to the scientific, cultural and political developmentEconomic and technological, being necessary that criminologists have powers that have formed part of the past, the present and the future to exercise their profession. In this sense, for the Professor Gordillo, the definition more accurate and in keeping with the times in which we live, is that set out in the white paper of Criminology and which holds that a criminologist has to be the foremost expert in the safety of the population ”.

Therefore, the aspects that are part of this Decalogue, correspond to the core competencies that should be part of the Repertoire of a subject who wants to tackle the challenge posed by the Criminology as a scientific discipline with guarantees ” ensures Rodolfo Gordillo, Professor of Criminology of the UDIMA.

Decalogue of core competencies for a criminologist:

1. Command of the English language. It is the language in which most published and disseminate scientific results, essential for the universalization of the knowledge. Separate serves as a springboard to job offers that other countries demand and in which there is a greater criminological, Belgium, Great Britain or United States tradition.

2. Analysis of the political reality. The criminologist should develop a sense of Justice, ethical and moral, to address criticism of the rule of law when it endangers the harmonious coexistence of its members. The ability of criticism and self-criticism will be an important tool to be working since the first contact with the criminological discipline.

3. Social intelligence. The criminologist will relate with people whose levels of emotional distress will be high. Therefore, being able to capture the feelings of people, remember details of the talks and the qualitative aspects of body language will help to establish appropriate dynamics and will give the keys to concrete actions.

4. New technologies domain. Crime knows no languages, races or social classes and the increasingly globalized world is faster thanks to new findings that allow almost immediate interaction of new discoveries. Therefore, increasingly it is more necessary in common projects at the international level without the need for long journeys and for which the management of new technologies becomes essential.

5. Leadership. A criminologist have to learn to make decisions, promote initiatives, direct and coordinate human teams, as well as develop strategies for what will be a skill like leadership covering such necessary.

6. Deductive and inductive capacity. Scientific research originates with these skills. With them the scientific captures a number of peculiarities that have a meaningful relationship for him, and once validated empirically, it will help maintain the canons of Science: explain, control and prevention.

7. Scientific updating. The multidisciplinary framework surrounding the Criminology, obliges the criminologist to be updated on the progress of those disciplines that nourish. So those advances in related disciplines such as psychology, sociology, politics and biology will be required reading.

8. Ease in communication. The criminologist should be a speaker who knows transmit and communicate the information correctly. Its scope of action required to communicate with people of all kinds, attend meetings, congresses and communicative ability will be a tool to help you cope with the maximum solvency.

9. Entrepreneurial spirit. The private sector demand a control, prevention and treatment of the security service. Currently there are no trained professionals to meet this demand, and is hence where comes into play the criminologist.

10. Desire for improvement. The crime is evolving and what is now valid, tomorrow may be ineffective. Obstacles to administration, the political classes and the material and economic resources can put down the road should motivate the criminologist to try to achieve their goal. Why you need on many occasions those individual resources to solve or surround any obstacle that is.

About the UDIMA

Universidad a Distancia of Madrid (UDIMA) is the first fully private Spain. UDIMA non Presential University has its campus in the town of Collado-Villalba Madrid and currently teaches its fourth academic year with a training offer which includes 14 degree titles, 16 University Master’s degrees and 30 degrees. With a few very supported in ICT, but at the same time teaching methods, an approach very close to the student, the UDIMA aspires to become one of the choices of higher quality in the panorama of university education in Spain.