Crime Science MSc

Multidisciplinary scientific approaches are rapidly becoming one of our most effective weapons in the fight against crime. This Crime Science MSc will give you the tools and knowledge you need to understand, prevent and reduce crime using scientific methodologies, preparing you for a career in crime prevention. Our Crime Science MSc allows you to specialise in crime science, developing data-driven strategies and initiatives to prevent crime, and more effectively detect and arrest offenders. Unlike traditional criminology programmes, this programme focuses on how to prevent and detect crimes by treating the crime rather than the offender as the subject of analysis. Combining expert analytical approaches from psychology, social science, statistics, mathematics, forensics, computing, geography and even architecture, you develop creative problem-solving approaches. You will learn to think critically about complex and evolving crime issues from low-level interpersonal and property crimes, right through to larger-scale financial crimes being committed by organised crime groups in cyberspace. You will then use advanced skills in statistical analysis and quantitative methods to design robust research projects to investigate them. Using real-life case studies and initiative design frameworks, you’ll develop a deep understanding of the theories, processes and application of crime prevention. This will enable you to assess the impact of planned crime reduction initiatives and eventually generate your own novel proposals to address specific crime problems, making a positive difference to the lives of citizens and communities across the world. 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.

Normally a minimum of a second-class Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline from a UK university or an overseas qualification of an equivalent standard. Relevant disciplines include science subjects, for example engineering or computer science; or social science subjects, for example, psychology, criminology or geography. Alternatively candidates may qualify for entry if they can offer five or more years of relevant professional experience (for example in the police service, or as a crime prevention worker).