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Qualification
MA - Master of Arts
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Location
Colchester Campus
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Study mode
Full time
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Start date
01-SEP-25
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Duration
1 year
Course summary
In recent years, issues of terrorism and organised crime have gained an unprecedented profile, provoked significant social concern, and dominated both law-and-order and many wider social policy agendas. Our MA Organised Crime, Terrorism and Security course draws on state-of-the-art research to address key critical issues surrounding organised criminality and terrorism in contemporary society.
We involve multi-level analyses of organised crime as a concept, alongside the impacts of urbanisation, migration, and globalisation upon both the practice of crime and the ways in which we understand them. You will address cutting-edge critical, conceptual, and theoretical analyses of terrorism and counter-terrorism
This course provides you with a strong grounding in the key theories, understandings and issues relating to organised crime and terrorism. You explore topics including:
- Globalisation and organised crime
- Mafia, corruption, and power
- Drug trafficking and illicit trades
- Security and the state
- Analysis, politics, and prevention of terrorism
- Security challenges
- Cybercrime and digital criminology
- Ethics of Human rights
- The hacker ethics
Your future
This course provides excellent preparation for further academic study, and many of our postgraduates go on to successful academic careers, both in the UK and overseas.
Employment opportunities for graduates of this course include careers in security, policing, research, intelligence, and justice professions.
Others have established careers in non-governmental organisations, local authorities, specialist think tanks, government departments, charities, media production, and market intelligence.
Modules
Tuition fees
- United States
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- Albania
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- Antigua & Barbuda
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- Austria
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- Bulgaria
- Burkina Faso
- Burma
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- Cambodia
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- Canada
- Central African Republic
- Chad
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- China
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- Comoros
- Congo
- Congo (Democratic Republic)
- Costa Rica
- Croatia
- Cuba
- Curacao
- Cyprus
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Djibouti
- Dominica
- Dominican Republic
- East Timor
- Ecuador
- Egypt
- El Salvador
- England
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
- Estonia
- Ethiopia
- Fiji
- Finland
- France
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Georgia
- Germany
- Ghana
- Greece
- Grenada
- Guatemala
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Guyana
- Haiti
- Honduras
- Hong Kong
- Hungary
- Iceland
- India
- Indonesia
- Iran
- Iraq
- Israel
- Italy
- Ivory Coast
- Jamaica
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- Jordan
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- Kenya
- Kiribati
- Korea DPR (North Korea)
- Kosovo
- Kuwait
- Kyrgyzstan
- Laos
- Latvia
- Lebanon
- Lesotho
- Liberia
- Libya
- Liechtenstein
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Macedonia
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Malaysia
- Maldives
- Mali
- Malta
- Marshall Islands
- Mauritania
- Mauritius
- Mexico
- Micronesia
- Moldova
- Monaco
- Mongolia
- Montenegro
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Nauru
- Nepal
- Netherlands
- New Zealand
- Nicaragua
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Northern Ireland
- Norway
- Oman
- Pakistan
- Palau
- Palestinian Authority
- Panama
- Papua New Guinea
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Philippines
- Poland
- Portugal
- Puerto Rico
- Qatar
- Republic of Ireland
- Romania
- Russia
- Rwanda
- San Marino
- Sao Tome and Principe
- Saudi Arabia
- Scotland
- Senegal
- Serbia
- Seychelles
- Sierra Leone
- Singapore
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Solomon Islands
- Somalia
- South Africa
- South Korea
- South Sudan
- Spain
- Sri Lanka
- St Vincent
- St. Kitts & Nevis
- St. Lucia
- Sudan
- Suriname
- Swaziland
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Syria
- Taiwan
- Tajikistan
- Tanzania
- Thailand
- Togo
- Tonga
- Trinidad & Tobago
- Tunisia
- Turkey
- Turkmenistan
- Tuvalu
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- Uganda
- Ukraine
- United Kingdom
- Uruguay
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- Vanuatu
- Vatican City
- Venezuela
- Vietnam
- Wales
- Western Samoa
- Yemen
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
£ 21,700per year
Tuition fees shown are for indicative purposes and may vary. Please check with the institution for most up to date details.
University information
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University League Table
30th
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Campus address
University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, Essex, CO4 3SQ, England
Subject rankings
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Subject ranking
19th out of 56 1
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47th out of 101
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Entry standards
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Graduate prospects
/ Max 10059.0 59%27th
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Student satisfaction
/ Max 43.32 83%12th
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/ Max 215119 55%46th
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/ Max 10064.0 64%61st
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Student satisfaction
/ Max 43.20 80%20th
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Entry standards
/ Max 206123 60%47th
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Student satisfaction
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