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Masters Degree Description

Police forces face an ever-evolving array of complex crime challenges and ethical responsibilities, while making sure their actions can withstand increasing public scrutiny. Our Policing MSc will help you rise to these challenges, using scientific methods and evidence-based approaches to protect life and property, preserve order and uphold justice. 

Build a comprehensive set of 21st-century policing skills with this multidisciplinary data-driven Policing MSc. This course has been co-designed by leading academics and law enforcement, counterterrorism and intelligence agency practitioners and draws directly from today’s most pressing issues in the field. 

On this programme, you will develop an advanced toolkit of research design and statistical analysis techniques that will allow you to solve real-world problems and security issues using data. 

Working alongside a diverse group of peers from all kinds of professional and academic backgrounds, you will acquire an expert understanding of how crime reduction policing models, such as problem-oriented or intelligence-led policing, are used by law enforcement agencies across the world. 

Entry Requirements

Applicants should have, or expect to obtain before entry, a lower second-class Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline (e.g. criminology, psychology, sociology, law, geography or hard science) from a UK university or an overseas qualification of an equivalent standard. Candidates who have at least five years' relevant professional experience are also eligible. In exceptional circumstances, students who do not fulfil these requirements may be considered.

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Fees

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Programme Funding

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Student Destinations

Our graduates are fully equipped for exciting careers on the frontlines of crime prevention, in law enforcement and security-related organisations.

Module Details

Compulsory modules

  •  Foundations of Security and Crime Science
  •  Models of Policing for Crime Reduction
  •  Police and the Public
  •  Ethical Policing
  •  Security and Crime Science Dissertation
  •  Research Methods for Crime Science

Optional modules

  •  Management Skills for Police Leaders
  •  Perspectives on Organised Crime
  •  Investigation and Detection
  •  Intelligence Gathering and Analysis
  •  Prevention and Disruption
  •  Risk and Contingency Planning
  •  Introduction to Cybersecurity
  •  Qualitative Research Methods
  •  Cybercrime
  •  Horizon Scanning and the Changing Nature of Crime
  •  Applied Data Science
  •  Simulation for research
  •  Crime Mapping and Spatial Analysis
  •  Online Extremism and Hate Crime
  •  Assessing Extremism Risk
  •  Understanding Multivariate Modelling and Causal Inference
  •  Human trafficking, smuggling and exploitation
  •  Perspectives on Extremism and Terrorism

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