The BA (Hons) Criminal Justice at Liverpool John Moores University is informed by extensive links with criminal justice system practitioners and delivered by expert academics with frontline experience.

If you are interested in the causes and consequences of crime and want to pursue a career in the criminal justice system, this course offers a practical and vocational route to working in spheres such as policing, probation, prisons, youth justice or drugs and alcohol. The fascinating field of deviance, delinquency and criminality is ideal for anyone who wants to get to the root of why people commit crime and how society deals with them.

Your studies focus on ‘the now’ and you will critically consider key contemporary criminal justice issues within modern British society. You will be able to see the criminal justice system in action by visiting courts, prisons and a variety of criminal justice agencies, by undertaking fieldwork or work placements and by being actively encouraged to seek out voluntary work.

Career opportunities in the criminal justice field are wide and varied and recent graduates are working as: 

• police officers
• community support officers
• trainee probation officers
• probation service assistants
• arrest referral and bail support team workers
• drug and alcohol support workers
• prison officers
• social workers
• youth workers
• victim/witness support workers