Master of Law - Policing, Crime and Society ((DC662)

The LLM in Policing, Crime and Security is a one year full-time and two year part-time Masters programme offered by DCU’s School of Law and Government

Programme Structure and Content

• Students will be on-site for timetabled classes for two or three days a week in each semester (depending on the module choices).
• Each semester runs for 12 weeks, semester one running from September to December and semester two running from January to April.
• Students will undertake a research dissertation on a subject related to Policing, Crime or Security (subject to approval from the programme chair) which is usually completed during the summer.
• Students will be supervised in their dissertation work by a member of staff and there will be a collective dissertation workshop after semester two. 
• Students must take Legal and Socio-Legal Research Skills (Semester 1) and Preventing and Analysing Crime (Semester 2) plus the independent research Dissertation (15,000 words).
• Along with these compulsory courses, full time students choose four modules; two in the first semester, and two in the second semester. In year one, part-time students take both compulsory taught modules, plus one optional module in each semester. In year two, part-time students take one optional module in each semester plus the independent research Dissertation.