Course Content
Year 1
Core modules in this year include:
- Criminal Justice – 20 credits
- Cyber Security and Forensic Computing – 20 credits
- Cyberspace, Subcultures and Online Deviance – 20 credits
- Essential Skills for Criminologists – 40 credits
- Introduction to Digital Forensic Investigations – 20 credits
- Understanding Criminology – 20 credits
Year 2
Core modules in this year include:
- Cyberlaw Governance and Human Rights - 20 credits
- Online Activism, Cyberterrorism and Cyberwarfare - 20 credits
- Contemporary Terrorism and the Global Response - 20 credits
- Researching Criminology - 20 credits
Optional modules in this year include:
- Community Justice – 20 credits
- Crimes of the Powerful – 20 credits
- Cultural Criminology – 20 credits
- Cybercrime Clinic – 20 credits
- Forensics Fundamentals – 20 credits
- Forensics Investigations – 20 credits
- Fundamentals of Forensic Investigation – 20 credits
- Gang Crime – 20 credits
- Global Environmental Justice – 20 credits
- Global, State and Corporate Security – 20 credits
- Hate Crime – 20 credits
- ICJS 60 Credit Study Abroad Programme – 60 credits
- Learning from Experience – 20 credits
- Modern Foreign Language (Institution-wide Language Programme) – 20 credits
- Online Activism, Cyberterrorism and Cyberwarfare – 20 credits
- Penology and Prison – 20 credits
- Policing and Society – 20 credits
- Principles of Economic Crime Investigation – 20 credits
- Psychology and Security – 20 credits
- Underworlds: Crime, Deviance & Punishment in Britain, 1500-1900 – 20 credits
- Victims of Crime: Key Players in Criminal Justice – 20 credits
- Wildlife Crime: Threats and Response – 20 credits
- Youth Crime, Youth Justice – 20 credits
- The Dark Web: Threats, Freedoms and Responses – 20 credits
Placement year (optional)
- Work Placement Year – 120 credits
- ICJS Study Abroad Year – 120 credits
Year 3
Core units in this year include:
- Cybersecurity: Theory and Practice – 20 credits
- Dissertation / Major Project – 40 credits
- Information Security Management - 20 credits
Optional modules in this year include:
- Contemporary Terrorism and the Global Response – 20 credits
- Crime and New Technologies: Theory And Practice – 20 credits
- Cyberpsychology – 20 credits
- Dangerous Offenders and Public Protection – 20 credits
- Economic Crime and Fraud Examination – 20 credits
- Forensic Psychology and Mental Health – 20 credits
- Forensic Psychology: Investigation – 20 credits
- Gender and Crime – 20 credits
- Green Crime and Environmental Justice – 20 credits
- Information Security Management – 20 credits
- Intelligence Analysis – 20 credits
- Introduction to Teaching – 20 credits
- Learning from Experience – 20 credits
- Miscarriages of Justice – 20 credits
- Money Laundering and Compliance – 20 credits
- Policing: Law, Policy and Practice – 20 credits
- Policing:communities, Intelligence and Information – 20 credits
- Political Extremism – 20 credits
- Professional Development: Recruiters and Candidates – 20 credits
- Social Policy, Justice and Crime (l6) – 20 credits
- State Crime – 20 credits
- Treatment and Rehabilitation of Offenders – 20 credits