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    1 year Full Time

Course Description

The LLM in Criminal Justice gives you a panoramic, 360-degree view of the criminal process, and a multidimensional perspective which explores organic synergies between domestic, transnational and international criminal justice. It opens up diverse career paths in the criminal justice and human rights sectors.

As well as compulsory modules that provide you with a foundational knowledge of criminal justice theory and practice, you’ll have the opportunity to choose from a wide range of specialist criminal justice (and human rights) modules delivered by the Department of Law (module details below).

To diversify your studies, you’ll also be able to choose relevant optional modules from the Department of Politics and International Relations and the Department of Psychology.

Our curriculum has been built for the 21st-century landscape of Law, including subjects from Feminist Approaches to Law to NGO Advocacy in a polarised world to Environmental Challenges, Social Justice and Human Rights.

Entry Requirements

Applicants will normally have a degree in Law, a related social science discipline (such as Criminology, Politics and International Relations, Sociology, Anthropology, Media & Communications, Economics or Psychology) or a humanities degree (such as English, History, Philosophy or Art).

We also accept applications from people with professional, transferrable experience working in:

  • NGOs
  • Charities
  • Criminal justice and human rights organisations
  • Journalism
  • The civil service or other governmental positions

Students will normally be expected to have an upper second-class honours degree or its equivalent. There is some flexibility where applicants demonstrate exceptional commitment or abilities to study for the degree because of their possession of other qualifications, or because they have relevant experiences that would qualify them for the programme.

Fees

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Module Details

Students will study compulsory modules to the value of 45 credits, and complete a compulsory dissertation for 60 credits in the area of criminal justice (105 credits total).

You’ll then be able to choose a further 75 credits of optional modules.

Compulsory modules
Module title Credits
Advanced Criminal Law and Criminal Justice: Domestic, Comparative and International 30 credits
Counter-Terrorism, Human Rights and the Family 15 credits
Criminal Justice Dissertation 60 credits

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