Criminal Justice part time distance learning courses

Why study criminal justice online at Portsmouth?

Progress your career by developing professional expertise in policing and criminal investigation
Study at a location that suits you, at a time that fits with your schedule
Taught by experts in the field
We have excellent links with key bodies in the industry – such as the National Cyber Security Centre, the Cabinet Office, and policing agencies
Receive a similar level of support as campus-based students, with interactive digital course material and optional live online seminars.
Stay in touch with our teaching and support staff, and your personal tutor, via email, phone and video calls
We assess each application on an individual basis

Our distance learning courses in Criminal Justice

Enhance your career in criminology with our flexible distance learning degrees. Study online, part-time at a location that suits you.

Amy Meenaghan: In the Distance Learning Programme, you are able to be part of the Portsmouth community while studying at a time and place that suits you.

We have three different degrees. We have policing and investigation, criminology and criminal justice and risk and security management.

Anybody can study at a distance. We have students studying all over the world in different time zones. All of the learning materials will be available at a time to suit you so you can fit it in with your work commitments, you can fit it in with your family commitments.

Jessie Walker: I have two jobs. I also have a 13 year old son and I have a dog at home, and for me, distance learning just seemed like the right thing.

Paula Secree: The amount of resources that are available to you are on par with anyone that's doing a full time course.

Amy Meenaghan: Using our virtual learning platforms you can access everything you would possibly need. We do offer additional Zoom calls with our course leaders and our module coordinators.

Paula Secree: We had 24 hour chats online with library staff, which was handy for me because I worked shift work.

Jessie Walker: They’ll send you chapters from physical books, they’ll scan it for you and they can send it to you.

Paula Secree: There were staff that were on hand for me to be able send my work to so that I could get advice on the work.

I had a lot of trust in them that the advice that they were giving was pretty much always sound.

Sometimes it can feel a little bit isolated. However, from speaking with the other students, it was quite inspiring to see how they were thinking and what route they were going down. There was still an element of working with your peers.

Amy Meenaghan: In terms of the career opportunities that are available from our degrees they’re very, very broad. Essentially, they give you a background in all criminological areas. So policing, probation, security, there's a whole range of different areas that you could go into with our degrees.

Jessie Walker: Because I have feelings about how the criminal justice system runs anyway and how it works for lots of different people, I think starting the degree really opened my eyes up to how it could be changed and it is manageable if you plan yourself, and I haven't come to the point where I’ve thought, I can't fit this in because I want to do it.

Paula Secree: I would suggest to anyone that was considering doing this course to give it a go, it is going to give you an extra element of knowledge and understanding. I enjoyed so many different elements of it.