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A testimony of a student
Virginia
describes professors,
students,
and the degree course.
Some of the lessons listed in our
school calendar
1.
Security policies
2.
Terrorism
3.
Psychology of security
4.
Security and safety
5.
Sexual slavery
6.
Insanity and crime
7.
Distinction between deviance and
crime
8.
Immigration and crime
9.
Logic of the inquiry: circumstantial
evidence, sign, clue
10.
Computer crimes
11.
Juvenile delinquency
12.
White-collar criminality
13.
Drug addiction
14.
Public security structures
15.
Private security structures
The academic denotation
Name
Degree in Investigation Sciences
Place
Faculty of Formation Sciences
University of L’Aquila
Classification
Psychological Sciences and
Techniques
Admission
requirements Five- year
superior secondary school
Diploma
Duration
Three years
Number of
credits 180
University
title First
level degree
Academic
qualification Graduate
Our
professors
Some professors of this degree course
come of normal academic circuits, others are experts who
come of different professional security sectors.
During the years we have had as our
professors or lecturers:
1)
Famous judges such as
-
the judge Ferdinando
Imposimato, the only one who outlived the judges
generation who investigated the great Italian mysteries,
from the Mafia to the
attempt on the life of the Pope John
Paul II
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the judge Lucio Di Pietro, the
National Anti-Mafia Deputy Prosecutor
2) Important
public investigators such as
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Carlo Bui, Head of the
U.A.C.V. (Violent Crimes Analysis Unit) for the
Scientific National Police
Service
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Pietro Carretta, Head of the
School for Inspectors of the Revenue Guard Corps
(Guardia di Finanza)
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Armando Palmegiani, Head of
the E.R.T. (Experts on Surveys and Tracks) for the
Scientific National Police Service
3) Distinguished opinion-makers
such as
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Vittorio Di Cesare, Editor of
the magazine “Intelligence & History top- secret”
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Saverio Fortunato, Editor of
www.criminologia.it
4) Famous lawyers such as:
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Carlo Taormina, professor in
the University of Rome
-
Guido Calvi, protagonist of
many important trials
5) Outstanding security managers
and private investigators such as:
-
the representatives of the
“World Association of Detectives”;
-
security managers who are
employed in the most renowned Italian multinationals
from Bulgari to the E.N.I.
6) Important politicians such as:
- Minister Gianni Alemanno
- Marco Minniti, Undersecretary
of State
Our course is based on the human
factor. A lot of our professors are experts on
psychological, psychoanalytical and psychiatric topics
and most of them have an uncommon professional
experience: some of them work as psychotherapists, some
work as expert witnesses, and others work as specialists
in serious mental diseases. Their experience is
completely thrown into our courses. From criminology to
psychology, from psychiatry to medicine, from law to
physiology and anthropology, all the human knowledge is
connected and interrelated just to give the student an
open view in an open society. So our students can learn
how to face a global society characterized by
uncertainties, errors, fear, fraud, insecurity.
Together with teachers who regularly
work in our degree course, there are also a lot of
teachers who are sometimes invited to give lectures or
conferences on various themes: from the risk of a
nuclear, chemical and bacteriological war to the most
important investigative methods against Mafia’s crimes.
Every year, for example, there’s the
“Investigation Day”, a demonstration which takes place
in our university in May with the task of informing
students, professors and amateurs of topics concerning
security, intelligence, investigations, the role of
misinformation with particular regard to the human
factor and the misleading errors connected with the
investigation profession, investigation techniques, and
so on. All of this it’s made with the participation of
specialists who have great experience and prestige and
who come from different countries such as Brazil,
Israel, Cuba and France. This demonstration is open to
all the people who want to know something new about
investigation and its world so that students can improve
their knowledge about what they study and professors can
contribute to it thanks to their experiences. In this
way the students’ world as well as the professors’ one
can talk to each other in order to open up new horizons:
cooperation among students and teachers is very
important in our degree course and the disposal of the
teachers at their students helps them to be always in
step with lessons and exams.
Our students
Our students belong to various
categories: from students who have finished the
Secondary School to housewives, from graduate students
in other academic fields to policemen. They have in
common just a thing: they are all interested in
investigation.
As the University of L’Aquila is the
only one in Italy which has a degree course in
Investigation Sciences, our students comes from all over
Italy as well as from Europe.
During the years the role of the
investigator has changed; in Italy there were a lot of
famous private investigators (such as our “student”
Carmelo Lavorino), but they
didn’t have a degree and their profession was
underestimated.
If we think that even the Italian use
of the term “Investigation” is different from an
English- American one, it is clear it is different the
meaning of the investigator figure too. Great Britain
and the USA regulated this profession a long time before
us and this is significant if we take into consideration
that only since a few times the role of investigator has
been “redeemed”.
During the past years the
investigation was thought to be reserved only to the
police or to public prosecutors, it was considered
something which belonged to the public sphere. But with
the passing of time, with new laws, with new regulations
and the EU enlargement it was necessary to give a status
to the private investigator too.
Lawyers can work together with
private investigators and investigators can contribute
to lawyers’ work.
The criminal field is not the only
sector in which an investigator can be employed: for
example he can work in an industry or in a multinational
as a security agent or he can work as a spy in case of
mobbing and so on.
After this three- year- degree course
our students can choose their field according to their
requirements and interests and you never know it is
possible they will find their ways and be famous public
or private investigators: they only have
to follow their
calling.
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