This interdisciplinary Crime Science with Serious Organised Crime MSc shows you how to use science-based approaches to detect and disrupt organised crime networks and groups. Using these tools, you’ll rise to the challenge, reducing harms and mitigating the influence of organised criminals who persistently target some of the most vulnerable members of our society. Join us on this degree and learn how to apply scientific methodologies drawn from a diverse range of disciplines to the problem of serious organised crime. Our Crime Science with Serious Organised Crime MSc provides you with a robust conceptual toolkit, allowing you to critically evaluate any manifestation of organised crime and devise evidence-based strategies in response. You’ll examine the group structures and governance models found in organised crime, developing a sophisticated understanding of how crime groups try to embed themselves in communities and social infrastructure. You’ll hone advanced skills in statistical analysis, quantitative methods and research design. Drawing on a diverse range of disciplines, including social sciences, you’ll become skilled at manipulating large datasets and extracting evidence to apply to real-world serious crime problems. You’ll also develop tools to help you tackle specific organised crime activities like human trafficking, smuggling and exploitation. Going beyond the narrow lens of criminal justice, you’ll gain an appreciation of the structural and systemic drivers of these crimes through the study of workers’ and migrants’ rights, and questions of agency and restraint. Our Crime Science MSc is suitable for applicants from a range of different disciplines who want to pursue a lifelong career in research or work in the security and crime prevention industry. This programme is ideal for those with a passion for problem-solving seeking to make a positive impact on society through security and crime science. This programme is also available on a modular (flexible) basis, with a duration of 5 calendar years.