Learning Outcomes

In this free course, you will learn how to:

• Define crime analysis according to the spatial and temporal nature of the crime
• Discuss the criminal justice system in England and Wales
• Classify the different types of crimes
• State the principles of evidence and reconstruction of a crime scene
• Identify the basic statistics used in crime analysis
• Recognise the theories of criminal behaviours
• Explain the concept of money laundering
• Discuss the science, logic and metacognition behind criminal profiling
• List the quantitative research methods available to study criminology
• Analyse the different methods of forecasting and predicting future crimes