This unique MA Serious and Violent Crime will impart essential practical leadership skills for understanding, investigating, and responding to serious and violent crimes. The full flexibility of the course has been specifically designed to help you fit your career progression around your professional life. We offer admission onto the course for anyone with a bachelor's degree (2:2) in a related field or at least three years of work experience within the Criminal Justice System. The programme provides a dedicated support pathway that runs parallel to your studies to equip you with the academic skills needed to succeed, whatever your background is. Using case studies, you will critically analyse a wide range of criminological topics within the remit of serious and violent crime, such as terrorism, sexual offences, and the dark web. You will also gain the specialised skill set needed to cope with traumatic material in high-pressure environments and lead teams through challenging incidents and investigations. Upon graduation, you will be prepared to take confident strides within the field and make a positive contribution to your community in combatting serious and violent crime. The course is led by applied academics with practitioner backgrounds within the Criminal Justice System, ensuring you gain skills that set you apart in the profession. They have aligned your course material with the latest sector standards to reflect the current work of all stakeholders within the Criminal Justice System.
Which department am I in?
Arden University
Study options
Full Time
(1 Year)
Tuition fees
£10,550.00 (US$ 13,625)
per year
This is a fixed fee
Start date
December 2027
Venue
Online
Arden House,
Middlemarch Park,
Coventry,
CV3 4FJ, England, United Kingdom
Entry requirements
For international students
To be eligible for our MA Serious and Violent Crime, you should normally have: A UK Honours Degree at a minimum of second class (2:2) or equivalent. If you don't hold the above qualification three years work experience within the sector is required, without this your application will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis.
*There may be different IELTS requirements depending on your chosen course.