Policing, Law Enforcement & Investigation

This module outlines the history of punishment and criminal justice in the UK. Showing how systems of criminal justice are, and have been, influenced by the social, political, religious, cultural, and theoretical trends and themes and cannot be understood outside that context.

This module will support the development of your academic skills that will be necessary to complete an undergraduate programme of study.

Digital technology is estimated to impact 98% of all reported crimes. This module is designed and delivered by experts in the field, who use their practical experience to supplement academic knowledge of cybercrime. You will learn about digital technology and how it can be used to commit and detect crime. You'll learn practical cutting-edge techniques that will help make you effective digital investigators. Real world scenario based assessments will test your ability to make an impact on digital crime.

Study the processes of gathering evidence, analysis of criminal intelligence, planning of reactive and pro-active investigations and link the concept of criminal investigation to policing.

This module will introduce you to the concepts of policing, public safety, the role and powers of enforcement agencies, and basic principles of criminal law that underpin police powers.

Our module introduces you to the legislation, policy and investigative considerations to prevent and detect crime committed using digital technology. Digital Investigation is an increasingly important area in providing evidence to support investigations and prosecutions.

Develop transferable career skills to support the management, planning, and evaluation of research, data analysis, and data interpretation.

This module will introduce you to the principles, methods and concepts used in protecting and responding to the most vulnerable in society.

During this module you'll consolidate knowledge of evidence gathering, police powers and investigation skills learnt at Level 4. We'll introduce investigative interviewing skills and the presentation of evidence in a court of law.

Explore critical explanations of how the state responds to young people breaking, or at risk of breaking, the law or acting in an antisocial way.

This module aims to introduce you to key issues and debates relating to the justification and use of punishment following a conviction for a criminal offence.

Explore the range of multi-agency partnership arrangements and evaluate the effectiveness of different models of co-working in preventing crime.

This module aims to extend your investigative knowledge and practice to advanced-level procedures and processes, from reports to court applicable to serious and complex crimes.

Consolidate and strengthen your academic skills with a focus on advanced skills of relevance for graduate careers.

Learn the professional skills required to independently investigate a digital incident within an appropriate legal framework.

Understand the links between feminist thought and other critical academic approaches that examine power and knowledge production, in the context of explaining crime and criminal justice.

Critically explore a range of core ideas and debates around the use of contemporary imprisonment, both domestically and globally to support reflective thinking and analysis of the use of prison as a method of punishment.

The module will provide you with knowledge of the threat that fraud presents to the UK at national as well as local levels. In addition, it will explain how the use of Financial Investigation to recover assets acquired through acquisitive crime, makes committing such crimes less lucrative, and thereby less attractive.

The module develops your understanding of police approaches and critical appreciation of the historical roots of terrorism and counter-terrorism strategies within the UK setting. It helps you to build a critical understanding of the UK's Counter-Terrorism Strategy and legislative framework, together with practical issues concerned with countering terrorism.

You'll study the complexities of investigating criminal offences committed against vulnerable people. You'll look at how police and other agencies work together as well as the challenges of securing convictions against offenders.

In this module you'll independently plan, design, research, and produce an in-depth study of a real-world problem closely allied to, the Policing, Law Enforcement, and Investigation syllabus.