Edinburgh Law School’s LLM in Criminal Law and Criminal Justice is a cutting‑edge, research‑led programme that develops advanced knowledge of key concepts and theories in criminal law and criminal justice and how they operate in practice. Core areas include current issues in criminal law and justice, substantive and procedural criminal law, criminalisation, international/transnational/European criminal law, sexual offending, global crime and insecurity, the penal process, and doctrinal, comparative, theoretical and socio‑legal approaches. The degree comprises 180 credits: 120 credits of taught courses (60 per semester) and a 10,000‑word dissertation worth 60 credits. It prepares graduates for careers in legal practice, policy, criminal justice agencies, NGOs, and international organisations, or for further academic research. 来源： https://www.law.ed.ac.uk/study/masters-degrees/msc-criminology-and-criminal-justice