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Access to Higher Education Diploma (Criminology)
This Course at a Glance
- Helps you get qualified for professional crime prevention careers
- Learn about feminist criminology, crimes of state, and the criminal court process
- Understand the role of the Forensic Psychologist and how they affect both juries and eyewitnesses
- Study a criminology degree without A Levels
- 100% online learning
- No exams
About your Diploma
Whether it be greed, passion, jealousy, or desperation, there can be any number of reasons why a person would commit a crime. This means the route to discovering the truth is often incredibly complex, interesting, and in many cases, highly unexpected.
If you often find yourself enthralled in a crime book or the latest criminal docu-series, you can turn your innate investigative skills into a highly rewarding and important career. From Police Officers to Criminologists and Crime Scene Investigators, there is a vast number of jobs that rely on the understanding of deviant behaviour.
This Access to Higher Education Diploma (Criminology) can help you get on track to fighting and preventing crime, by equipping you with the ideal foundation knowledge ahead of a criminology-related degree. Not only will you begin to understand the cause of a crime, you will also consider the social impact of it and the prevention methods that are in place to stop it from happening again.
Just some of the many interesting units you will explore include:
- Understanding Crime & Deviance
- Sociology of the Family
- Crime & Media
- Criminal Justice & Social Policy
- Criminal Law & Procedures
All of this, and the fact the qualification is a nationally recognised equivalent to A Levels, will help you get on your way to a crime-related degree programme within a year.
Getting Started
Stonebridge Associated Colleges is a leading UK distance learning provider, helping learners all over the UK achieve their life and career goals through convenient online education. This Access to Higher Education Diploma (Criminology) provides a nationally recognised Level 3 qualification that is regulated by the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA).
Being an entirely online course, you can study it at home in your free time. You have 24 months to complete the learning materials, but the majority of our learners finish within 9-12 months due to the flexible nature of the study programme.
This helps you achieve your goal of reaching university quickly. What’s more, our Individual Learning Plan will help you stay on track throughout your studies, as you’ll have an outline of the submission deadlines for your assignments.
*Please note, as each university sets its own entry requirements, you will need to check your chosen institution accepts this qualification before you enrol.
On successful completion of the Skills Education Group Access to Higher Education Diploma (Criminology), you will receive a QAA-recognised Access to HE Diploma at Level 3 (QAA ref: 40013431).
Requirements for Entry
You must hold Level 2 qualifications in both English and Maths, or be working towards them alongside studying your Access to Higher Education Diploma. You also need to have a UK address to enrol.
University Entry Criteria
It must be reiterated that each university will set its own admission criteria. So, you must check with your desired institution if your Access to HE Diploma and other qualifications will be accepted.
In many cases, to get started on healthcare courses at university, you will need:
- A certain number of credits passed with a merit or a distinction grade
- A face-to-face interview at the university
- Literacy and numeracy assessments provided by the university
- Course-related work placements or work experience
- GCSE Grade C/4 or above in Maths and English (or equivalent Level 2 such as Functional Skills/Key Skills, etc.)
It is your responsibility to check that your Access to HE Diploma will be accepted as part of these entry requirements for your chosen degree. learndirect will not be held accountable if completing this Access to Higher Education Diploma doesn’t secure you a position with a higher education institution.
Minimum age restriction
This course is ideally suited to those who have completed full-time education but have not achieved the grades required to get into university.
Average completion timeframe
The average time it takes our learners to complete the course is 9-12 months.
Assessment requirements
A range of assessment methodologies are used, including: academic poster, academic report, case study analysis, essay, journal article, portfolio, presentation (video and audio recording), academic writing skills tasks
Exams required
There are no exams included in the assessment of the course.
Membership required?
No membership is required to enrol on this course.
Additional requirements
Learners must be actively studying for a minimum of six months before results can be ratified and certificates ordered. The six month period does not start until you have passed unit 2 of your course and you must be submitting assignments regularly (in line with the deadlines in your Individual Learning Plan) to meet this six month requirement. Certificates can only be issued once your course is paid for in full.
Certification Timeframe
You can expect to receive your certificate 12-16 weeks from your final assignment being marked and graded, depending on the time of year. You will be provided with regular updates throughout the certification process so that you are fully informed of your individual timeframes.
All course fees, inclusive of all payment plans including our Premium Credit Limited option, must be settled before certification can be ordered.
*You will have access to the course for 24 months.
Professional Membership
On completion of this course you will be eligible to join the following Professional Associations(s):
An access validating agency with a strong social purpose to recognise achievement, particularly for those who have benefited least from their previous educational experiences, Skills and Education Group Access supports the needs of learners, providers, businesses and communities.
You must hold Level 2 qualifications in both English and Maths, or be working towards them alongside studying your Access to Higher Education Diploma. You also need to have a UK address to enrol.
University Entry Criteria
It must be reiterated that each university will set its own admission criteria. So, you must check with your desired institution if your Access to HE Diploma and other qualifications will be accepted.
In many cases, to get started on healthcare courses at university, you will need:
- A certain number of credits passed with a merit or a distinction grade
- A face-to-face interview at the university
- Literacy and numeracy assessments provided by the university
- Course-related work placements or work experience
- GCSE Grade C/4 or above in Maths and English (or equivalent Level 2 such as Functional Skills/Key Skills, etc.)
It is your responsibility to check that your Access to HE Diploma will be accepted as part of these entry requirements for your chosen degree. learndirect will not be held accountable if completing this Access to Higher Education Diploma doesn’t secure you a position with a higher education institution.
Minimum age restriction
This course is ideally suited to those who have completed full-time education but have not achieved the grades required to get into university.
Average completion timeframe
The average time it takes our learners to complete the course is 9-12 months.
Assessment requirements
A range of assessment methodologies are used, including: academic poster, academic report, case study analysis, essay, journal article, portfolio, presentation (video and audio recording), academic writing skills tasks
Exams required
There are no exams included in the assessment of the course.
Membership required?
No membership is required to enrol on this course.
Additional requirements
Learners must be actively studying for a minimum of six months before results can be ratified and certificates ordered. The six month period does not start until you have passed unit 2 of your course and you must be submitting assignments regularly (in line with the deadlines in your Individual Learning Plan) to meet this six month requirement. Certificates can only be issued once your course is paid for in full.
Certification Timeframe
You can expect to receive your certificate 12-16 weeks from your final assignment being marked and graded, depending on the time of year. You will be provided with regular updates throughout the certification process so that you are fully informed of your individual timeframes.
All course fees, inclusive of all payment plans including our Premium Credit Limited option, must be settled before certification can be ordered.
*You will have access to the course for 24 months.
Unit 1: Studying the Brain and Nervous System
On completion of this unit you will:
- Understand the structure and function of nervous system including key areas of the brain
- Understand the structure and function of glial cells and neurons
Unit 2: Aspects of Situational Crime
On completion of this unit you will:
- Understand how the developments in environmental methods of crime control can contribute to crime prevention
- Understand how crime prevention methods can be incorporated to reduce risk to the victim and reward for the perpetrator
- Understand environmental methods of crime control in relation to route activity theory
Unit 3: Crime and the Media
On completion of this unit you will:
- Understand the influence of news media on the public perceptions of crime and criminality
- Understand the influence of film and television on the public perceptions of crime and criminality
- Understand the link between social media and the public perceptions of crime and criminality
- Understand the links between crime and media using criminological research
Unit 4: Impact of Forensic Psychology in Criminal Investigations
On completion of this unit you will:
- Understand the roles of the Forensic Psychologist
- Understand how psychologists have contributed to jury behaviour and eyewitness memory
- Understand offender profiling
- Be able to apply an offender profiling technique
Unit 5: Impact of Criminal Statistics in Criminal Justice
On completion of this unit you will:
- Understand how different crime statistics are sourced in the UK
- Understand the reliability of criminal statistics on the understanding of crime
- Understand factors that cannot be measured within criminal statistics
Unit 6: Key Factors in Critical Criminology
On completion of this unit you will:
- Understand the political difference between Right and Left Realism
- Understand the key feminist debates in criminology
- Understand arguments regarding crimes of the state and human rights
- Understand contemporary developments in criminology
Unit 7: Theories of Criminal Justice
On completion of this unit you will:
- Understand crime prevention models
- Understand crime control theories
- Understand how different political perspectives inform criminal justice theories
Unit 8: The Prison System
On completion of this unit you will:
- Understand the philosophical approaches of punishment and imprisonment
- Understand prison categories and the relative costs
- Understand the individual and societal effects of imprisonment
Unit 9: Criminal Court Procedures, Personnel and Sentencing
On completion of this unit you will:
- Understand a range of Criminal Court processes and personnel
- Understand sentencing in the UK court system
Unit 10: The European Convention on Human Rights and the Human Rights Act 1998
On completion of this unit you will:
- Understand the general scope and application of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR)
- Understand the impact of ECHR
- Understand the impact of the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA)
Unit 11: Interpersonal Relationships
On completion of this unit you will:
- Understand theories of interpersonal relationships
- Understand explanations relating to the stages of relationships using research
- Understand the effects of interpersonal relationships on the individual
Unit 12: Perspectives on Psychological Disorders
On completion of this unit you will:
- Understand the challenges in defining normal human thoughts and behaviour
- Understand a range of explanations for a chosen psychological disorder
- Understand a range of psychological treatment methods for a chosen psychological disorder
Unit 13: Writing a Criminology Essay
On completion of this unit you will:
- Be able to develop and plan an essay about a topic from the field of Criminology Studies
- Be able to write an essay about a topic from the field of Criminology Studies
Unit 14: Exploring Theories of Crime and Deviancy
On completion of this unit you will:
- Be able explain of crime and deviance from a range of viewpoints
- Understand the social structural theoretical basis of crime and deviance
- Understand the media’s influence on perceptions of crime or deviance
Unit 15: Exploring an Introduction to Psychological Research and Approaches
On completion of this unit you will:
- Understand scientific research methods in the field of psychology
- Understand different psychological approaches to explaining behaviour
- Understand ethical issues connected with psychological research
Unit 16: Exploring Family Structure and Changes
On completion of this unit you will:
- Understand changes in family
- Understand a range of sociological explanations of the family
Unit 17: Writing and Studying Academic Texts
On completion of this unit you will:
- Be able to write academically and with relevance
- Be able to interpret and express ideas in a piece of academic work
- Be able to analyse and summarise text, and appreciate the problems caused by plagiarism
Unit 18: Planning and Writing an Assignment
On completion of this unit you will:
- Be able to select and assess appropriate source information in response to a task
- Be able to reference sources used in a recognised style
- Understand different reading strategies
- Be able to take effective notes
- Be able to plan, draft and produce a written assignment
You will be tested through a range of end-of-unit assignments which are designed to give you the opportunity to check up on your knowledge and advance. After each assignment, your tutor will offer feedback to help you not only progress further but also improve your skills. This Access to HE Diploma is a Level 3 Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) regulated qualification.
To successfully achieve your qualification, you will need a total of 60 credits. Of these, 45 will come from graded units of academic content, while the following 15 will be drawn from ungraded units concerning study skills.
OUR PASS RATE
Access to Higher Education Diplomas
83%
(National Average 77.1%)
Access to Higher Education Diploma (Criminology)
This Course at a Glance
- Helps you get qualified for professional crime prevention careers
- Learn about feminist criminology, crimes of state, and the criminal court process
- Understand the role of the Forensic Psychologist and how they affect both juries and eyewitnesses
- Study a criminology degree without A Levels
- 100% online learning
- No exams
About your Diploma
Whether it be greed, passion, jealousy, or desperation, there can be any number of reasons why a person would commit a crime. This means the route to discovering the truth is often incredibly complex, interesting, and in many cases, highly unexpected.
If you often find yourself enthralled in a crime book or the latest criminal docu-series, you can turn your innate investigative skills into a highly rewarding and important career. From Police Officers to Criminologists and Crime Scene Investigators, there is a vast number of jobs that rely on the understanding of deviant behaviour.
This Access to Higher Education Diploma (Criminology) can help you get on track to fighting and preventing crime, by equipping you with the ideal foundation knowledge ahead of a criminology-related degree. Not only will you begin to understand the cause of a crime, you will also consider the social impact of it and the prevention methods that are in place to stop it from happening again.
Just some of the many interesting units you will explore include:
- Understanding Crime & Deviance
- Sociology of the Family
- Crime & Media
- Criminal Justice & Social Policy
- Criminal Law & Procedures
All of this, and the fact the qualification is a nationally recognised equivalent to A Levels, will help you get on your way to a crime-related degree programme within a year.
Getting Started
Stonebridge Associated Colleges is a leading UK distance learning provider, helping learners all over the UK achieve their life and career goals through convenient online education. This Access to Higher Education Diploma (Criminology) provides a nationally recognised Level 3 qualification that is regulated by the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA).
Being an entirely online course, you can study it at home in your free time. You have 24 months to complete the learning materials, but the majority of our learners finish within 9-12 months due to the flexible nature of the study programme.
This helps you achieve your goal of reaching university quickly. What’s more, our Individual Learning Plan will help you stay on track throughout your studies, as you’ll have an outline of the submission deadlines for your assignments.
*Please note, as each university sets its own entry requirements, you will need to check your chosen institution accepts this qualification before you enrol.
Access to Higher Education Diplomas
OUR PASS RATE
(National Average 77.1%)
83%
On successful completion of the Skills Education Group Access to Higher Education Diploma (Criminology), you will receive a QAA-recognised Access to HE Diploma at Level 3 (QAA ref: 40013431).
Requirements for Entry
You must hold Level 2 qualifications in both English and Maths, or be working towards them alongside studying your Access to Higher Education Diploma. You also need to have a UK address to enrol.
University Entry Criteria
It must be reiterated that each university will set its own admission criteria. So, you must check with your desired institution if your Access to HE Diploma and other qualifications will be accepted.
In many cases, to get started on healthcare courses at university, you will need:
- A certain number of credits passed with a merit or a distinction grade
- A face-to-face interview at the university
- Literacy and numeracy assessments provided by the university
- Course-related work placements or work experience
- GCSE Grade C/4 or above in Maths and English (or equivalent Level 2 such as Functional Skills/Key Skills, etc.)
It is your responsibility to check that your Access to HE Diploma will be accepted as part of these entry requirements for your chosen degree. learndirect will not be held accountable if completing this Access to Higher Education Diploma doesn’t secure you a position with a higher education institution.
Minimum age restriction
This course is ideally suited to those who have completed full-time education but have not achieved the grades required to get into university.
Average completion timeframe
The average time it takes our learners to complete the course is 9-12 months.
Assessment requirements
A range of assessment methodologies are used, including: academic poster, academic report, case study analysis, essay, journal article, portfolio, presentation (video and audio recording), academic writing skills tasks
Exams required
There are no exams included in the assessment of the course.
Membership required?
No membership is required to enrol on this course.
Additional requirements
Learners must be actively studying for a minimum of six months before results can be ratified and certificates ordered. The six month period does not start until you have passed unit 2 of your course and you must be submitting assignments regularly (in line with the deadlines in your Individual Learning Plan) to meet this six month requirement. Certificates can only be issued once your course is paid for in full.
Certification Timeframe
You can expect to receive your certificate 12-16 weeks from your final assignment being marked and graded, depending on the time of year. You will be provided with regular updates throughout the certification process so that you are fully informed of your individual timeframes.
All course fees, inclusive of all payment plans including our Premium Credit Limited option, must be settled before certification can be ordered.
*You will have access to the course for 24 months.
Professional Membership
On completion of this course you will be eligible to join the following Professional Associations(s):
An access validating agency with a strong social purpose to recognise achievement, particularly for those who have benefited least from their previous educational experiences, Skills and Education Group Access supports the needs of learners, providers, businesses and communities.
Unit 1: Studying the Brain and Nervous System
On completion of this unit you will:
- Understand the structure and function of nervous system including key areas of the brain
- Understand the structure and function of glial cells and neurons
Unit 2: Aspects of Situational Crime
On completion of this unit you will:
- Understand how the developments in environmental methods of crime control can contribute to crime prevention
- Understand how crime prevention methods can be incorporated to reduce risk to the victim and reward for the perpetrator
- Understand environmental methods of crime control in relation to route activity theory
Unit 3: Crime and the Media
On completion of this unit you will:
- Understand the influence of news media on the public perceptions of crime and criminality
- Understand the influence of film and television on the public perceptions of crime and criminality
- Understand the link between social media and the public perceptions of crime and criminality
- Understand the links between crime and media using criminological research
Unit 4: Impact of Forensic Psychology in Criminal Investigations
On completion of this unit you will:
- Understand the roles of the Forensic Psychologist
- Understand how psychologists have contributed to jury behaviour and eyewitness memory
- Understand offender profiling
- Be able to apply an offender profiling technique
Unit 5: Impact of Criminal Statistics in Criminal Justice
On completion of this unit you will:
- Understand how different crime statistics are sourced in the UK
- Understand the reliability of criminal statistics on the understanding of crime
- Understand factors that cannot be measured within criminal statistics
Unit 6: Key Factors in Critical Criminology
On completion of this unit you will:
- Understand the political difference between Right and Left Realism
- Understand the key feminist debates in criminology
- Understand arguments regarding crimes of the state and human rights
- Understand contemporary developments in criminology
Unit 7: Theories of Criminal Justice
On completion of this unit you will:
- Understand crime prevention models
- Understand crime control theories
- Understand how different political perspectives inform criminal justice theories
Unit 8: The Prison System
On completion of this unit you will:
- Understand the philosophical approaches of punishment and imprisonment
- Understand prison categories and the relative costs
- Understand the individual and societal effects of imprisonment
Unit 9: Criminal Court Procedures, Personnel and Sentencing
On completion of this unit you will:
- Understand a range of Criminal Court processes and personnel
- Understand sentencing in the UK court system
Unit 10: The European Convention on Human Rights and the Human Rights Act 1998
On completion of this unit you will:
- Understand the general scope and application of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR)
- Understand the impact of ECHR
- Understand the impact of the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA)
Unit 11: Interpersonal Relationships
On completion of this unit you will:
- Understand theories of interpersonal relationships
- Understand explanations relating to the stages of relationships using research
- Understand the effects of interpersonal relationships on the individual
Unit 12: Perspectives on Psychological Disorders
On completion of this unit you will:
- Understand the challenges in defining normal human thoughts and behaviour
- Understand a range of explanations for a chosen psychological disorder
- Understand a range of psychological treatment methods for a chosen psychological disorder
Unit 13: Writing a Criminology Essay
On completion of this unit you will:
- Be able to develop and plan an essay about a topic from the field of Criminology Studies
- Be able to write an essay about a topic from the field of Criminology Studies
Unit 14: Exploring Theories of Crime and Deviancy
On completion of this unit you will:
- Be able explain of crime and deviance from a range of viewpoints
- Understand the social structural theoretical basis of crime and deviance
- Understand the media’s influence on perceptions of crime or deviance
Unit 15: Exploring an Introduction to Psychological Research and Approaches
On completion of this unit you will:
- Understand scientific research methods in the field of psychology
- Understand different psychological approaches to explaining behaviour
- Understand ethical issues connected with psychological research
Unit 16: Exploring Family Structure and Changes
On completion of this unit you will:
- Understand changes in family
- Understand a range of sociological explanations of the family
Unit 17: Writing and Studying Academic Texts
On completion of this unit you will:
- Be able to write academically and with relevance
- Be able to interpret and express ideas in a piece of academic work
- Be able to analyse and summarise text, and appreciate the problems caused by plagiarism
Unit 18: Planning and Writing an Assignment
On completion of this unit you will:
- Be able to select and assess appropriate source information in response to a task
- Be able to reference sources used in a recognised style
- Understand different reading strategies
- Be able to take effective notes
- Be able to plan, draft and produce a written assignment
You will be tested through a range of end-of-unit assignments which are designed to give you the opportunity to check up on your knowledge and advance. After each assignment, your tutor will offer feedback to help you not only progress further but also improve your skills. This Access to HE Diploma is a Level 3 Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) regulated qualification.
To successfully achieve your qualification, you will need a total of 60 credits. Of these, 45 will come from graded units of academic content, while the following 15 will be drawn from ungraded units concerning study skills.
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