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UCAS CODE: L313

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  • Qualification

    Bachelor of Science (with Honours) - BSc (Hons)

  • Location

    Main Site

  • Study mode

    Full time

  • Start date

    SEP-24

  • Duration

    3 Years

Course summary

Gain a solid grounding in police criminal investigations while also developing broad knowledge and skills that will set you up for a wide range of careers in criminal justice and beyond or further studies.Criminal investigation is a central part of police activity, and when seeing the news every day, we can see how it influences the public perception of the police and their accountability and legitimacy.The increase in crime, and the way crime is committed today, provides very different challenges to those facing detectives of the past. On this course you will adopt a critical approach to criminal investigations, exploring investigative history, police effectiveness in volume, serious and complex, and major crime investigations, historic and current sexual and domestic abuse investigations. You will also seek to understand the current context within which detectives work, including a national shortage of detectives, government austerity measures and the rise in technology and complex criminality.Specialist facilitiesWe have invested significantly in a Hydra suite that will allow our students to simulate crime scenarios under ‘close-to-real’ conditions You will have the opportunity to use the Hydra facility during some modules (e.g. decision making) to allow you to directly experience highly realistic incidents, situations and scenarios as part of your integrated learning. You will also be able to gain some applied knowledge of criminal justice processes through our ‘courtroom’ which is a lecture theatre which simulates a courtroom and which used to be a courtroom in the past.LocationThis course is run at our Canterbury Campus in Kent. Canterbury is just 50 miles south-east of London and less than an hour by high-speed train from St Pancras. Located on a UNESCO World Heritage Site the campus offers state-of-the-art buildings, right in the centre of a vibrant and world-famous cathedral city. You’ll benefit from a campus with excellent learning and teaching resources, music venues, a superb sports centre, a well-stocked bookshop and plenty of coffee bars and places to eat. A short walk away is Augustine House our award-winning library and home to a vast range of learning resources and student support teams.

Application deadline

31 January

Tuition fees

Students living in United States
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15,500per year

Tuition fees shown are for indicative purposes and may vary. Please check with the institution for most up to date details.

University information

Canterbury Christ Church University

  • University League Table

    106th

  • Campus address

    Canterbury Christ Church University, North Holmes Road, Canterbury, Kent, CT1 1QU, England

Subject rankings

  • Subject ranking

    17th out of 61 22

    99th out of 109 25

    81st out of 101 8

    28th out of 38 2

  • Entry standards

    / Max 153
    111 62%

    49th

  • Graduate prospects

    / Max 100
    59.0 59%

    14th

    26
  • Student satisfaction

    / Max 5
    4.13 83%

    16th

    6
  • Entry standards

    / Max 220
    103 46%

    102nd

  • Graduate prospects

    / Max 100
    51.0 51%

    94th

    33
  • Student satisfaction

    / Max 5
    3.69 74%

    79th

    5
  • Entry standards

    / Max 198
    104 51%

    91st

  • Graduate prospects

    / Max 100
    50.0 50%

    64th

    5
  • Student satisfaction

    / Max 5
    3.87 77%

    38th

    7
  • Entry standards

    / Max 197
    110 53%

    34th

  • Graduate prospects

    / Max 100
    n/a

  • Student satisfaction

    / Max 5
    3.74 75%

    29th

    7

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