Criminology Diploma Level 3
NVQ
Online
Description
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Type
NVQ Level 3
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Methodology
Online
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Class hours
120h
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Duration
12 Months
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Start date
Different dates available
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Online campus
Yes
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Delivery of study materials
Yes
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Support service
Yes
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Virtual classes
Yes
This course on Criminology is designed to inform the learner on the UK Criminal Justice and how it works in practice.
This course comes to you as a paper course pack which you can work through in your own time. By reading through the lessons on the course and with the help of a personal tutor you will be able to learn all of the necessary knowledge required to tackle the tutor marked assignments that are used to assess the course. Alternatively, you can study for this course online to save some money on your course and study through the internet with the materials available 24/7 on any computer or smart device.
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Location
Start date
Start date
About this course
Criminology is the study of crime how to prevent it, as well as exploring the criminals and their treatment. Criminology students will develop new theories for dealing with crime and its reasons. They also learn about the criminal justice system and its inner workings.
Career options include:
• Drug enforcement agent
• Litigation manager
• Probation officer
• Victim services specialist
• CIA agent
• Criminologist
This Criminology course covers topics including Children and Criminology, Young Offenders and the Criminal Justice System, the Anglo American Model and Labelling Theory and Critical Criminology. As a whole the Criminology course covers law, psychology and sociology helping you to have a better understanding of Criminology and aid you in making fully informed conclusions based of the information given.
Reviews
Subjects
- Criminology
- Social
- Roman Britain
- Law
- Victims
- Criminalisation
- State
- Positivism
- Classicism
- Chicago School
- Administrative Criminology
- Critical Criminology
- Theory
- Social Control
Course programme
This course assesses the following units:
- Chapter 1: Social Order Maintenance in Celtic & Roman Britain
- Chapter 2: Inequality before the Law
- Chapter 3: Criminalisation, Victims and the Role of the State
- Chapter 4: Classicism and Positivism
- Chapter 5: The Anglo American Model and the Chicago School of Criminology
- Chapter 6: Anomie, Social Control & Deviant Subculture Theories
- Chapter 7: Administrative Criminology
- Chapter 8: Labelling Theory and Critical Criminology
- Chapter 9: Right Realism
- Chapter 10: Left Idealism and Left Realism
- Chapter 11: Feminist Criminology
- Chapter 12: Ethnicity and Crime
- Chapter 13: Mentally Disordered Offenders and the Criminal Justice System
- Chapter 14: Young Offenders and the Criminal Justice System
- Chapter 15: Children and Criminology
- Chapter 16: Agencies of Social Control
- Chapter 17: The National Probation Service
- Chapter 18: Incarceration and Punishment
- Chapter 19: White Collar Crime
- Chapter 20: Violent Crime
To pass this course learners must complete a number of assignments. These are completed after navigating through the lessons which are sent to students and writing your answers to assignment questions. Once these have been read and marked by your personal tutor, feedback and marks are provided to students which contain helpful tips to improve work in future assignments.
Criminology Diploma Level 3