Course Fee: €445
Distance Learning Course of 8 modules

Course Details:

'A criminologist' writes one of the most prominent practitioners of the craft ' is one whose professional training, occupational role and reward are concentrated towards a scientific approach, study and analysis of the phenomena of crime and criminal behaviour''. - Wolfgang 1963. Crime may not pay, but studying it does! You may understandably ask why people get paid to study crime and criminal behaviour and why, beyond reasons of remuneration, do people engage in this area of study.

There are a variety of answers to the above questions, built around the following kinds of concerns: both anxiety and fear are common responses to crime; the desire to predict and control crime; the hope of preventing crime through social reactions to it, and the simple desire to learn more about crime and what it can tell us about the society we live in.

Subjects included in the course:

• Introduction to Criminology.
• Emergence of European Criminology.
• Criminal Behaviour & How It Develops.
• Delinquency & Juvenile Offenders.
• Crime & Early Forms of Punishment.
• The Law Makers.
• Transportation & Victorian Prison Life.
• Present Day Prison Life.
• The Sentencing Process.
• Aggression.
• Environment, Heredity, Social & Economic Status.

Management/Leadership Skills Test

All students of this course have the option to take a Management/Leadership Test for an additional cost of €35.00. This test is conducted on our behalf by Verax international. This test has to be taken on line and the results will be sent directly to each student by email usually within 3/ 4 working days.

The test will allow you to assess your own performance against 16 key management/leader competencies – such as customer focus, decision making, creativity and team working – which are valued by employers and which are very important for effective performance as a manager or team leader. There is one test for managers in the public sector and a separate test for all other managers. Depending on which version chosen, your performance is benchmarked either against 15,000 or so managers in the database or against public sector managers only.

In summary, this unique test will show you what to stop doing (or do less of) and what to start doing (or do more of) in order to become more effective in your current role/activity. In effect, you are told what you need to do to become a more effective manager and team leader and most important of all, how to do it.’


Accreditation

When you have completed this course you may take a final examination. Full details of this examination are automatically sent to you as you near the end of the course. The examination costs €65 and is taken at home at your convenience.  If you receive 70% or more in this examination you will receive an ITEC Diploma.

For further details on ITEC's Accreditation please visit the Accreditation section. »Click here for further details.

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