BSc (Hons) Criminal Justice Bachelor's degree at Edge Hill University

Designed to enhance your learning about the core agencies of the criminal justice system, their role and function, and how they interact with each other to prevent and reduce crime, assess risk, and safeguard and protect (potential) victims of crime. The key bodies and their roles will be examined, and the processes by which they share information and work together to achieve goals will be explored. Multi-Agency Risk Assessment Conferences (MARACs), Multi-Agency Public Protection Assessments (MA

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Explores the key policy, practice and societal drivers which currently direct responses to addictions and offending. The Government strategy, 'Reducing Demand, Restricting Supply, Building Recovery' (Ministry of Justice, 2010), recognises the impact that addictions such as drug and alcohol dependence have on societal harm and crime. The strategy sets out to tackle dependence on all drugs including prescription and over the counter medicines, as well as severe alcohol dependence. The relationship

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Aims to provide you with a contemporary and detailed understanding of the pivotal issues pertaining to the mentally disordered offender (MDO). The module will specifically focus on those individuals detained under Part III of the Mental Health Act (1983) who will be frequently detained under Section 37 MHA (1983), which is a Home Office restriction order.

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Provides you with structured opportunities to develop essential academic, graduate attribute, and early professional skills. You will explore your individual learning styles, engage in supported skill-building activities, and apply these to academic and professional tasks. Through guided practice, and authentic tasks informed by employer partnership insights, you will gain confidence and competence in academic communication, research, professional behaviour and reflective practice.

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Introduces you to the criminal justice system. You will consider the function of the criminal justice system and the police role within it, as well as examining various pieces of associated legislation. You will focus on victims, the victims commissioner, codes of practice, and the role of the family liaison officer. You will also explore the custody process, in particular the detention, custody, charging, disclosure and escorting of detainees. Sentencing, out-of-court disposals and restorative

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Equips you with an understanding of the main legislation, theories and concepts surrounding vulnerability and vulnerable people in society as it relates to public protection policing. Examining contemporary issues such as child abuse, child sexual exploitation, child criminal exploitation, online abuse, domestic abuse and elder abuse, you will consider the impact of these types of offences on victims, their families and wider society. You will also critically assess legislation, policies and gui

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Provides an introduction to the principles of cyber security. Focus is particularly on how to prevent cyber attacks, and the protection, confidentiality and integrity of information across both human and technology dimensions. The module tackles cyber security as a multidisciplinary issue and introduces important cyber hygiene concepts needed to remain safe in the digital world. Cyber security is covered from both a theory-based and applied understanding of how to reduce the likelihood of harm c

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Ideal if you want to learn a new language, or further develop your current language skills, as an integrated part of this degree. The module will be taught in an interactive, communicative manner, using authentic materials in the target language. Emphasis will be placed on all four areas of reading, writing, speaking and listening. You will play an active role in the classes, engaging in role-plays, short conversations, videos, authentic texts and listening materials. You will also be encouraged

Assessment: 85% Coursework 15% Practical

Provides you with a thorough grounding in understanding and undertaking policing research. It considers the development of policing research and explores different qualitative and quantitative research methodologies. The module considers the theoretical context of approaches such as positivism and interpretivism. It also explores the skills necessary to evaluate policing research, particularly in terms of research ethics and politics and the practical skills necessary to undertake the research p

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Has been designed to provide an introduction to probation services and processes within criminal justice. The role, function and purpose of probation in the management of offenders will be explored and a historical and theoretical contextualization of probation as a concept and a criminal justice tool will be provided. The module will also explore aspects of probation work and will include tasters on commonly studied topics in this field. It will also consider contemporary challenges faced withi

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Explores the concept of violence and the various forms it can take. Specifically, the module will focus on the relationships between gender, sex, sexuality and violence, and the ideological, cultural and religious underpinnings of such violent acts. You will be encouraged to look beyond established understandings of what constitutes a violent act to explore more abstract forms of violence such as harm, denial of rights, and poverty. Criminological and social science theory will form the basis of

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Recognises that there is much debate focused around the concepts of punishment and treatment in the UK and the wider world. The module will equip you with a detailed understanding of the key theoretical and practical arguments in the contemporary fields of criminal justice and health and social care. You will explore a variety of treatment options which are available to offenders across the criminal justice and health and social care services. You will assess their effectiveness and consider how

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Develops your employability skills by engaging you in work experience, either with industry (whether legal or non-legal) or with a voluntary organisation. After a few weeks of preparation for your placement, the placement will typically run throughout the second year of the course, commencing in October and running through until the end of April. Following completion of the placement, you will compile a reflective report illustrating the skills and experience demonstrated and acquired. This will

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Explores cyber crime both in theory and practice to analyse the intersection between criminal behaviour and justice processes. Common cyber attacks, offending methodologies, online harms and victimisation will be examined as you develop your understanding of the nature of these crimes and how the cultural worlds of hackers, crackers and trackers work. Cyber criminality, and its impact on society, will also be explored in-depth.

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Equips you with an understanding of the main legislation, theories and concepts surrounding vulnerability and vulnerable people in society as it relates to public protection policing. Examining contemporary issues such so-called honour-based abuse, sexual offences, sex workers and hate crime, you will consider the impact of these types of offences on victims, their families and wider society.