Whatever aspect of crime and justice inspires you to make a difference, you'll get real-world experience to prepare for a rewarding career in the sector.
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At ARU, you’ll prepare for your future career or progress your current career in the Criminal justice sector. You’ll be exposed to real world crime and investigation through real life case studies and through work experience or even an optional placement year. Throughout your course you’ll be taught by academics who are experts in the field as well as visiting professionals.
Depending on which course you chose, we will take you from crime scene to court room, showing you how to tie evidence to suspects and present your case in court, with hands-on experience in our superb crime scene rooms and our mock courtroom.
You might want to focus on crime prevention, understanding the primary causes of criminal behaviour and how this can be changed.
Whatever you choose, we’ll make sure you graduate with the knowledge, skills and abilities employers need. We work with employers who help us review what we teach and how we teach it – and they offer hands-on, practical opportunities to learn through work-based projects, internships or placements.
A degree in the area of Crime and Investigation can open many career possibilities: probation service, prison service (officers and governors), police (crime scene and victim liaison officers), forensics (examination and analysis), the Home Office (researchers and policy analysts), government intelligence agencies, social and youth work or law.
You can help shape the landscape of our criminal justice system with a degree in crime prevention and investigation.
How can we use it to prevent crime in the future? By Dr Neema Trivedi-Bateman.
As an ARU student you'll be able to:
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