Crime & Criminal Justice

This programme is a top-up programme which will allow individuals, whom already have a level 5 qualification, to complete a full Bachelor of Arts accreditation.
This course suits students who are interested in a wide range of jobs, whether that be a career in the police, probation, or work in the prison service, youth justice, criminal justice charities and the Civil Service, to name but a few.

Course Modules

• Dissertation (40 credits) - This year-long module will support students through a piece of major independent research. Students will work with a dissertation supervisor, and will go through the research ethics process. The dissertation-theme can be decided by the student and should be Crime and Criminal Justice related.
• Health, Wellbeing and Social Injustice (20 credits) - There is a complex relationship between crime, deviance, well-being and public health, and this module aims to unpack this, providing a critical insight into the dichotomy between human rights, social injustice and crime and deviance.
• The War on Terror (20 credits) - This module explores counter terrorism in its criminological, sociological and legal application. It requires students to critically analyse the meaning of terrorism, facilitators and motivators, and also the criminal justice system response to it in the UK and internationally.
• Criminal Investigation (20 credits) - This module provides students with an understanding of the criminal investigation process, from forensics, investigatory practice and relevant legislation to police interviews, testimonies, surveillance and evidence. Students develop a critical awareness of how police investigate crime and how courts use evidence. Current issues pertaining to criminal investigation will be explores, including notorious miscarriages of justice.
• Victimology and Peace-making (20 credits) - This module seeks to explore Crime and Criminal Justice from the viewpoint of victims and challenge traditional responses to crime. Students will be exposed to an array of contexts whereby the notion of ‘restorative justice’ is challenged.

Teaching on modules is active and action-orientated; learning will be done in a safe and supportive classroom space, with clear intent and sequenced progression articulated by an experienced and charismatic teaching team. Students will get the chance to apply learning to their own interests and understanding of the world, whilst collaborating with peers on flipped research tasks and project work from an androgogical perspective. Group debates, problem-solving, interactive group presentations and collaborative research tasks all add to EPNE’s meaning of active and entrenched learning on the BA top up in Crime and Criminal Justice, and thus cater for an outstanding student experience.

As with the nature of the study area, assessments take a vastly diverse form depending on the area studied, from research-orientated writing tasks, to public-facing presentations and digital knowledge production.