Applied Social Sciences

Community & Criminal Justice

The Community and Criminal Justice Division draws on its knowledge of, and partnerships with, the criminal justice system to offer a range of undergraduate, postgraduate and qualifying training programmes.

We offer undergraduate programmes in Applied Criminology, Applied Criminology with Psychology and Applied Criminology with Forensic Science. All three of these are offered on a full time and part time basis.

We also offer qualifying training programmes at undergraduate certificate level for Probation Support Officers (PSOs) and at BA Honours level for trainee Probation Officers in the Midlands and the East of England, alongside offering training programmes at Foundation Degree and certificate level for Police Officers and Police Community Support Officers (PCSO) in Leicestershire and for Police Officers in Nottinghamshire (in partnership with Castle College).

The Division also delivers a postgraduate programme, MA in Applied Criminology and Criminal Justice, as a campus based taught fulltime programme or as a distance learning programme. In addition staff in the division undertake research into all aspects of criminal justice and supervise PhD students.

Our work in providing training for the Probation and Police services and on the Applied Criminology degree programmes has been endorsed by Skillsmark.

Our staff have a wealth of teaching and research experience in the field of community and criminal justice, along with vocational backgrounds in:

• Probation
• Youth Justice
• Policing
• Prisons
• Social Work

Through the Community and Criminal Justice Research Unit the Division undertakes research and training in all fields pertaining to criminal and community justice, such as probation work, policing, community safety, youth justice, work with victims of crime and multi-agency work. The Division strives, in all its work, to challenge inequality and discrimination in relation to race, gender, sexuality, age, class, disability or any other form of social discrimination.

The Division also offers opportunities for research degrees in a wide range of community and criminal justice areas.