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First Cycle of Studies on Criminal Education in the Republic of Macedonia
First Cycle of Studies on Criminal Education in the Republic of Macedonia

Author(s): Vlatko Dimitrioski, Milena Dimitrioska
Subject(s): Vocational Education, Higher Education , Criminology
Published by: Факултет за безбедност - Скопје
Keywords: criminology; education; faculty; staff; curriculum; graduated criminalists

Summary/Abstract: Uncovering the truth about crimes which were committed, is the center around which the work and activities undertaken by authorized officers of the police within their jurisdictions revolve. To get to the truth it is needed that the police staff is provided with the appropriate criminal knowledge gained in relevant university educational institutions by criminal expert staff. Thus, the purpose of providing fast and appropriate response to all forms of crime, especially the new more rigorous forms of criminal behavior, is to constantly improve and upgrade knowledge. Once acquired knowledge and skills constantly need to be complemented and developed. Objectively selected staff is an additional element which occurs as necessary in circumstances where the new concept of police work requires bidirectional and direct link between the police and the community and seeks mutual resolution of the problems. This paper aims to show the educational cycle in the country through which theoretically educated police personnel ready to tackle the security challenges in the field is created. Special emphasis is placed on the education in criminal country covered in the first cycle of studies, the undergraduate studies. The authors initially attempt to present educational institutions for producing criminalists in the country, specifically state and private universities that produce the profile of staff ready to respond to security threats, and then the curriculum, the differences between them and the type of produced graduated criminalists. Thus the paper presents the current set of criminal education in the country; locates the institutions that are suitable for producing graduated criminalists, and looks at the functionality of the existing educational system, its advantages and disadvantages. Attention is paid to the position of the graduate criminalists and the possibility of their employment, and consequently the way the current ministry staff for their needs. As means, ways and roads that will bring to appropriate information and expose the information in the method of content analysis of the collected materials, where deduction is explained as a general term criminal education, comparative method which reveals similarities and differences in terms of the various educational programs to the end through the describe-explanatory synthesis, we reach the whole. For the purposes of this theoretical-empirical research, a research which examines public opinion about the existing educational system in the country and its placement and functionality was conducted.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 122-127
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: English