Public policies

Security Policies provides a preparation for understanding and addressing crime and security issues within public and private institutions.
For this reason, the specific PoliSi courses are based on a strong interdisciplinary knowledge (criminology, sociology, economics, law, research methodology, statistics, security technologies, on the internationalisation of teaching and application activities to facilitate exchanges and comparisons between different systems, and on the experience of professors/lecturers from universities, the business world and public administration.

This profile focuses on the design, management, analysis and evaluation of policies and interventions for the promotion of personal and collective well-being (for social inclusion and cohesion, human capital development,
growth and protection of the territory and cultural and artistic heritage, sustainable development).
The relevance of the topics dealt with in the profile is given by the profound reconsideration underway with respect to the meaning and methods of public and private intervention in the economy and society, both at international level and in Italy. For instance, while the need to control the size and, above all, the deficits of public budgets has increased, the number of people in need of some form of community support has grown.

The two needs can only be made compatible by spending resources better, making policies increasingly more pluralistic and imagining how the 'common good' can also be pursued by private actors. This profile therefore aims to teach the methodologies and operational tools to design policies and interventions to address collective problems in an innovative way, increasing the degree of autonomy of individuals and communities, so as to make
the former freer and the latter more sustainable.
The study also focuses on technical tools, which allow the effectiveness of the interventions implemented to be accurately measured.