Policing, Law and Investigation BSc (Hons) (Top-Up)

During the BSc Top-Up year, you will extend your skills and understanding of more specialist areas of policing and investigation. You will also have an opportunity to produce a dissertation, researching an area of policing that fascinates you.

MODULES

• Digital Crime - Investigation and Intelligence (20 Credits) Core: This module aims to enable students to understand and identify legislative, ethical and professional considerations and demonstrate the application (through a case study) of the highly technical skills required when conducting digital crime investigation evaluating the relevant legislation, national policy and specialist support structures available to investigators and the support of vulnerable victims and witnesses. The student will also recognise and acknowledge community and business considerations when conducting digital crime investigations whilst keeping a balanced, professional and objective approach. 
  
• Drugs and Alcohol (20 Credits) Core: This module aims to develop a multi-perspective of understanding how drugs and alcohol impact upon society in the UK and elsewhere by enabling students to apply sociological, historical, psychological and cultural perspectives to the study of drug and alcohol use, and policy responses to this ‘social problem’. The student will be provided with an in depth critical understanding regarding why people abuse drugs and alcohol and how this abuse is understood within societies, and how societies respond.
• Protection of Vulnerable Children and Adults (20 Credits) Core: The aim of this module is to acquaint students with knowledge and understanding of the key issues and debates with regards to Multi-agency working in the context of protecting vulnerable children and adults who become or are at risk of being victims of crime. During this module key guidance and preventive models will be discussed which will lead to the recognition of what are the key issues that prevent effective multi-agency working and their impact on service delivery. This module will focus on all aspects of public protection in terms of how police manage criminal investigations and reduce the risks to the individual. Focus within this module will be towards the prevention of risk towards the victim and how offenders are managed identifying key issues that students will need to analyse and evaluate in terms of multi-agency working. In addition the module will outline key processes in criminal justice, including risk assessment and the planning and delivery of interventions to tackle dangerous offending. To critically review the term ‘safeguarding’ and how interventions can be put in place to reduce the risk to individuals and protect the public.
• Serious Organised Crime (20 Credits) Core: The aim of this module is for the student to consider the chronological development of the nature and threat from international serious and organised crime and the impact it is having on 21st century society law enforcement, and communities. In this module the student will study the origins and evolution of Serious Organised Crime; the key characteristics of Serious Organised Crime and the synthesis of crime type and crime group’s on Serious Organised Crime. The impact of Human Intelligence on Serious Organised Crime, and how the criminal use of technology is central to the threat from Serious Organised Crime. The student will review the national and transnational landscape of Serious Organised Crime looking at past, present, and future Serious Organised Crime priorities.
• Research Project (40 Credits) Core: The aims of this module is to provide an opportunity for students to carry out an in-depth study of a topic or issue based in, or closely allied to Policing by independent study. The module will continue to develop students skills in the role of research in Policing and examine some of the main theories and methodologies used in social science and develop an understanding of the application of theory and methodology to research practice. The student will then develop their ability to understand and define clearly a problem or area for further study. The students will develop the ability to extract relevant material from an in depth literature review using primary and secondary sources, using this information to inform the deign of their research study, in order to undertake an original investigation using acceptable research methodologies. Finally, the student will critically analyse and interpret results, to present a coherent and critical account of the work developing time management skills and achieving a measure of independence, demonstrating proficiency in academic writing/referencing..

The information listed in this section is an overview of the academic content of the course that will take the form of either core or option modules and should be used as a guide. We review the content of our courses regularly, making changes where necessary to improve your experience and graduate prospects. If during a review process, course content is significantly changed, we will contact you to notify you of these changes if you receive an offer from us.