* placement year fee
As a BA (Hons) Criminology and Policing student at ARU, we’ll help you work towards your career goals from day one.
Through our relationship with regional police forces and practitioners, you’ll have opportunities to engage with professionals from the criminal justice sector through guest lectures (including those organised by our Policing Institute for the Eastern Region), workshop events, study trips and research projects.
You may also have opportunities to work closely with local police forces. A recent student project, sponsored by Cambridge Constabulary, carried out research on police officer demographics and recruitment.
You’ll learn from staff with real-world experience: a significant part of your teaching in some modules will be delivered by policing and criminal justice practitioners such as former and active Crime Scene Investigators. Our criminology lecturers are active researchers with experience of working on real-life crimes with the police. You can also choose to an optional placement year.
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Year one, core modules
Crime News and Criminology
Criminal Justice in England and Wales
Introduction to Policing
Media, Society and Crime
Year two, core modules
Making A Difference
Evidence-Based Policing
Violence: Theories and Causes of Crime
Violence: Realities and Impact of Crime
Trials and Errors: Justice in Court
Intoxicants and Intoxication
Resilience and Emergency Management
Leadership in Policing and Criminal Justice
Globalisation and Security
Revolving Doors: Punishment and Rehabilitation
Policing Vulnerability
Cybercrime and Policing
Year three
Year four, core modules
Undergraduate Major Project
Politics and Public Service
Criminology in Policy and Practice
Negotiating Sex and Gender: accounts & accountability
Comparative and Global Criminal Justice
Investigative Psychology
Organised Crime
Neighbourhood Policing and Community Safety
Police and Counter-terrorism
Youth Crime and Aggression
Concepts of Good and Evil
Race, Racism and Cultural Identity
Sport, Globalisation and International politics
Our graduates go on to work in the police force, probation, prisons and youth justice, as well as the Border Force, the military, security, charities and NGOs, local government, and the public sector more generally. Others are using their skills in areas such as policy, PR, communication and the media.
Insurance – Single: 300 GBP per year
