Applied Criminology and Criminal Justice

Entry requirements

Applicants for the part-time and distance learning route are normally expected to have significant current experience of either paid or voluntary work in a people-centred organisation from a relevant profession. While you should normally hold an appropriate Honours degree, applications are welcomed from non-graduates who have relevant experience and qualifications and can demonstrate, through a portfolio of evidence, their ability to study at advanced level.

Career opportunities

Graduates will have widened their knowledge and understanding of a range of employment opportunities within the sector and may choose to pursue careers in specialist areas of interest that they have been able to develop through the course.

Programme

• It is designed to be attractive to a diverse range of students; traditional postgraduate students and communitybased practitioners working within the sector who wish to enhance their critical perspectives and develop multidisciplinary and multi-agency dimensions to their practice
• Opportunities for the continuous professional development of prison, police and youth justice staff, holders of the Diploma in Social Work and Diploma in Probation Studies and others working within both statutory and voluntary sector agencies
• Offers underpinning knowledge for the relevant occupational standards for Community Justice

The core modules include Contemporary Criminological Theory, Diversity and Criminal Justice, and Criminological Research Studies and Methods. Other subjects covered include youth crime, risk and society, rehabilitation and reintegration, and policing.

Teaching/assessment

The course is delivered by a full-time route with face-to-face teaching, and a part-time route delivered by blended learning. All students will engage with Blackboard, the virtual learning environment, with distance learning students undertaking online seminars and discussions. Assessment will usually be through assignments with some presentations and projects. A 60 credit dissertation on a subject of your interest completes the MA.

Further information

Open Days

We hold regular Postgraduate/Career Development open days and recommend that you visit us to get a feel for DMU. For more information visit our website dmu.ac.uk/opendays

Alumni Scholarships

There are an unlimited number of £500 awards for DMU graduates who wish to return to study a full-time or distance learning/online Master's or PhD degree starting in 2010.

Staff

The majority of teaching staff have practice backgrounds in the CCJ sector and are engaged in current research which informs their teaching.

Fee information

Full-time home/EU fees are £4,200 per person, per year. Part-time home/EU fees are £350 per 15 credit module and £1400 for a 60 credit dissertation (fees shown are for the 2009/10 academic session and may change slightly for future sessions).

Contact us

T: +44 (0)116 257 7700
E: hls@dmu.ac.uk
W: dmu.ac.uk/hls

How to apply

Please contact the Admissions Team for an application pack.