Bachelor of Law - Law and Criminal Justice (Honours)

LLB (Hons) Law and Criminal Justice pairs the complete qualifying law degree with sustained criminal-justice study: criminology, penology and sentencing, criminal evidence, policing and the justice system, alongside the foundation subjects of contract, tort, public law, land and equity. The combination produces graduates who understand both the law’s content and the institutional machinery — courts, police, prisons, probation — through which it operates.

Leicester De Montfort Law School’s criminal-side strengths shape the experience: staff research in miscarriages of justice feeds casework modules, the school’s innocence-project tradition gives undergraduates supervised roles reviewing real conviction concerns, and mooting problems lean criminal. Final-year options extend into terrorism law, cybercrime and comparative criminal justice, and the dissertation supports empirical projects on the working system.

The innocence-project tradition deserves specific mention in counselling: supervised review of potential wrongful convictions has run at the school for years, and criminal-justice students are its natural volunteers — casework that produces exactly the evidential-analysis experience that police-staff analyst and disclosure roles later interview for. Fees and entry cycles match the LLB family standard at £16,800 across three September windows, and the specialism’s seminar groups run smaller than the general LLB’s, a teaching-quality detail applicants rarely discover before arrival.

Deliver the sector truth kindly but completely: criminal legal aid practice is financially strained, many statutory justice roles restrict by residency, and the international graduate’s practical entries are paralegal work, civilian analyst roles and justice-charity casework at £20,000–£24,000 — meaningful work that feeds later qualification. The honours award brings Graduate Route rights at the 18-month post-2027 length, and dependants cannot accompany students on taught routes.