The course focuses on crime and justice with a specialism in cybercrime, considering the impact of this environment from a criminological and socio-legal perspective in a national and international context. The course provides insight into current cyber debates focusing on emerging research and professional practice.The Level 3 course prepares students for a successful transition to a wide range of honours degree courses in the complementary subject areas in the law and criminology department within the Royal Docks School of Business and Law, including:The course aims to offer a critical and interdisciplinary approach to the study of crime, cybercrime, and criminal justice practice, exploring key concepts and theoretical perspectives that relate to the study of crime and deviance and of the criminal justice system. You will learn about the impact of the cyber environment from a criminological and socio-legal perspective in a national and international context. The course aims to provide insight into current criminological and cyber debates focusing on emerging research and professional practice.The programme is taught by active researchers in the field of criminology and cybercrime who have published extensively on this subject area, providing you with high-quality teaching that is research-informed.You will be provided with a stimulating, challenging, and supportive learning experience through lectures, seminars, workshops small group work, and individual supervision. Direct class contact is supplemented by online interactive programme materials, teaching, individual reading, and preparation for assignments. Learning resources include IT and access to electronic databases and specialist library facilities.When you complete the programme you could consider a career in specialised cybercrime units in police or private organisations. You could work in areas such as crime prevention (charities or NGOs) cyber or criminological research or policy (both the UK Home Office and National Crime Agency have Cybercrime Units for example) intelligence analysis and security consultancy. You could also work in the prison system or do postgraduate study in cybercrime or criminology.