Crime, justice and the workings of the law are matters that affect us all and often dominate the news. This Diploma of Higher Education in Criminology and Law degree takes a critical and analytical view of the role and functions of the legal system and examines its relationship with crime, criminal behaviour and criminal justice.

If you're interested in exploring cutting-edge, topical and often controversial criminological issues, then this Diploma of Higher Education in Criminology is for you. You'll explore how crime and justice are defined, controlled, theorised and studied. Your knowledge of how to evaluate evidence and analyse information about crime and justice will be developed, ensuring you have the skills to confidently and expertly examine crime, victimisation, and criminal justice. 

Diploma of Higher Education in Criminology and Psychology helps make sense of crime, criminalisation, criminals and victims. This qualification will provide you with a critical understanding of these subjects. As your understanding develops, you'll question your own beliefs about crime and harm.

This Diploma of Higher Education in Criminology and Sociology offers you the chance to study topical and at times controversial, criminological and sociological subject matter.  You'll be introduced to the social research process, exploring what social research is, how it’s conducted, and why it’s important so you'll become curious, inspired, and empowered to think critically about the process of producing knowledge about the social world.

Throughout this criminology distance learning course, you will learn how to define crime, what causes crime and the consequences of crime. You will also consider the UK legislative environment and what impact this has on laws that are passed to mitigate the effects of crime. You will then move on to look at a range of different types of crime.

The Criminal Justice Diploma covers such skills as the secure management, safekeeping, and control of suspects and inmates.

This Level 3 Course in Criminology is designed to provide an introduction to those students who are interested in understanding more about the nature of crime and the type of people who commit the crime in the society in which they live.