Crime, Policy and Security

Overview

This Crime, Policy and Security programme from London Metropolitan University combines your professional experience with an academic desire to develop sector specific expertise, influence public policy and ultimately effect change.

Aimed at people working within the criminal justice and security sector, you’ll combine your professional experience with new research into a particular area of interest to you. They’re particularly interested in applications if you want to further the social justice agenda within your field of expertise or professional experience.

Assessment

You’ll be assessed through a variety of coursework and digital submissions that connect the module’s subject matter with your proposed area of study for your thesis.

The Research Methods module will be assessed through mixed methods data analysis exercises. You’ll also write a 50,000-word thesis that will be assessed by one internal and one external examiner through the postgraduate research viva process, which is an oral examination where you’re expected to answer questions and support your thesis to a panel of experts. Your thesis will be assessed for its knowledge and understanding of theory and practice, as well as your contribution to the original knowledge.

Career opportunities:

This course is designed to help you progress to more senior or specialist roles within the criminal justice sector, government or the civil service.

You could move into an influential role within the Metropolitan Police, the Youth Justice Board, the probation service, prison service, plus local, national and international government and intergovernmental departments.

Due to the research nature of this course, you could also move into an academic career.