Crime Courses

We have put together a list of excellent crime courses that would be ideal for anyone interested in criminology. 

Future Learn


Discover how psychology can help obtain evidence from eyewitnesses in police investigations and prevent miscarriages of justice.

https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/forensic-psychology

Explore life inside UK prisons. Learn whether this type of punishment reduces crime and if rehabilitation can prevent reoffending.

https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/incarceration-prisons-suitable-punishment

University College London

This four-day professional training course for police and CSP analysts provides a firm grounding in, and development of, problem-solving and intelligence-led analytical methods and processes in analysing crime.

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/short-courses/search-courses/crime-analysis

Neighbourhood Analysis: Crime and Security

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/short-courses/search-courses/neighbourhood-analysis-crime-and-security

Leeds University

Explore the complex questions around why crime happens, how offenders should be dealt with and how crime can be prevented.

https://courses.leeds.ac.uk/e989/criminal-justice-and-criminology-ba

Portsmouth University

Gain the investigative skills to combat global cybercrime

https://studyonline.port.ac.uk/online-msc-cybercrime

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