Diploma in Criminal Enforcement and Penitentiary Aspects 2ndI (in progress 2025)

Universidad de Mendoza adopts, as one of the possibilities of continuous training, the figure of the Diploma understood as an educational unit closed in itself, made up of a set of subjects organized in modules of improvement, updating and / or deepening of a specific area of ​​knowledge, and that contributes to the development of professional or academic competencies.

The Diploma that we present is generated by the detection of a need in the specific area of ​​Criminal Execution and penitentiary aspects, which can be attended academically from the University with scientific, disciplinary and methodological rigor.

With this academic offer, an attempt is made to link the main operators in the field of Criminal Justice and the Penitentiary System, who are potentially interested in delving into the different phases of the execution of the sentence, the implication of criminological and victimological factors in said process, the interdisciplinary approach, the complexity of prison life, as well as the system of protection of human rights in the context of confinement and comparative legislation.

• Continuing Education: Diploma
• Name of the Diploma: Higher Diploma in Criminal Execution and Penitentiary Aspects
• Plan Structure: Structured
• Modality: online – Zoom Meeting Pro Platform
• Institution: Universidad de Mendoza
• Academic Unit: School of Law and Social Sciences
• Organisation: Postgraduate and Continuing Education FCJS
• Supported by: AAJEP – Argentine Association of Criminal Execution Justice
• Quotas: Min MAX

Basic admission requirement

The basic requirement to complete the Diplomas at the School of Law and Social Sciences of the Universidad de Mendoza is having completed secondary education and being a creditor of the corresponding secondary degree or having approved the provisions of the current regulations regarding those over 25 years of age who, without a university degree, aspire to enter the University, in accordance with the provisions of the art. 7 of Law 24.521.

Priority recipients

The Diploma is intended, primarily, to:

● notaries and lawyers,

● magistrates of the national and provincial judicial powers,

● professionals from other degree courses and activities related to the field of Criminal Justice and the Penitentiary System,

● Officials and agents of the national, provincial, municipal and public administration.

● Advanced students of the Notary and Law degree course, as well as related degree courses.

If the Diploma is presented as a Postgraduate Degree Course before the CONEAU, the students with a degree who obtained the Diploma may request that the equivalencies of the approved subjects be recognized, provided that a similar scheme has been maintained and authorized by the regulations in force.

• Module Coordinators
  •  Virginia Barreyro
  • John Paul Chirinos
  • Eva Asprella
  • Juan Sebastián Galarreta
  • Miguel Sebastian Sarmiento
  • María Jimena Monsalve
  • Marcela Pérez Bogado

Synchronous Online Course Tuesdays from 15 to 17 pm

• Thematic Axis 1: Theory of Punishment: Current Criminological Perspectives
  • 1 Module: System of Criminal Sanctions. General Principles of Criminal Enforcement
  • Module 2: Criminology of Desistance
• Thematic Axis 2: Execution of sentences and human rights in the Penitentiary System. Institutes of progressiveness
  • 3 Module:  Human Rights and Penal System
  • 4 Module: Penitentiary System and Regime
  • Module 5: Institutes of Progressive Sentences. Procedural Aspects.
    AI applied to criminal enforcement
• Thematic Axis 3:
  • Module 6: Alternative Measures to Punishment and Imprisonment
  • Module 7: Gender and Diversity in Criminal Enforcement
• Workshop: Investigation methodology

The Diploma is paid for in order to guarantee the financing of its activities. The amounts of said contributions are approved by the Rectorate of the Universidad de Mendoza, at the proposal of the Dean.

The tariff obligations of the students with the School run from the moment of registration and only cease when they complete the Diploma or when they decide to abandon their studies. In the latter case, the student must inform the Postgraduate and Continuing Education Department by means of a note expressing their decision. Otherwise, continue to be a student of the Universidad de Mendoza with the consequent charge of the tariffs that accrue from then on and until the date on which he has effectively communicated his resignation.

Universidad de Mendoza will recognize the following modalities of tariff reductions:

• From an Institution to a Student: The applicant may particularly request financial support to complete the Diploma, from Institutions that they consider relevant. These Institutions will be considered "SPONSORS" of the student(s), if they are legally constituted. The commitment to pay the tariff set by the Universidad de Mendoza, will be between the student and that sponsoring Institution, and, in the event that it does not comply with the corresponding payment obligations, the student will assume the payment of the debt and the readjustments that it may have.
• From one institution to the Universidad de Mendoza: In the case of legally constituted Institutions that are interested in the participation of their staff in the Diploma and that would like to register officially, they may do so if they assume the commitment to take charge of the fee and readjustment that corresponds to that or those students. It may provide for the granting of tariff reductions to organizations and companies based on the number of applicants they incorporate, as agreed by current regulations.
• From Universidad de Mendoza to the teaching staff of the Undergraduate and Postgraduate Degree Courses: the Universidad de Mendoza may grant a 50% scholarship to the members of its teaching staff to carry out the corresponding Diploma within the framework of the Policy for the improvement of the School's teaching staff.
• From Universidad de Mendoza to the graduate with a degree granted by the same or to the advanced students of the same: the Universidad de Mendoza may grant a 25% scholarship to graduate professionals and advanced students of the Universidad de Mendoza.
• From Universidad de Mendoza to anyone who has economic impossibility or other special circumstances: The Diploma can grant scholarships to its students according to the budgetary possibilities. The number of scholarships must not exceed 10% of the total number of enrollees, unless authorized.

In all cases in which a scholarship has been granted, the payment of the annual registration fee (when applicable), and the payment of the Diploma fee will be exempt from this benefit.

Consult Postgraduate and Continuing Education about reductions and recognized scholarships for the Diploma through special Agreements.

Diploma students who have met the requirements established in current regulations to obtain the Diploma, the Universidad de Mendoza will issue the following certification:

"Diploma / or Superior in Criminal Execution and penitentiary aspects "

To obtain the Diploma certificate, the following is required:

• prove 75% attendance to classes,
• approve all the modules that make up the Curriculum,
• pass the final evaluation,
• comply with tariff obligations.

Diplomas are not equivalent to undergraduate, graduate or undergraduate degrees.

For students of the Diploma who do not meet the requirements, provided that they have attended 75% of the classes, the Universidad de Mendoza They will issue a certificate of attendance.

The Diploma or certificate of attendance in online mode is sent free of charge.