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Are you interested in a person’s psychological and behavioural characteristics?

Do you like finding out why people commit crimes?

Then our home study criminology and psychological profiling course is perfect for you! You’ll be able to explore personality theories, organised and disorganised crime scenes, risk factors and much more!

Our courses are independently accredited by ABC QLS. These awards help employers, organisations and learners cultivate the relevant skills for learning, skills for employment, and skills for life.

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    What is a criminal profiler?

    A criminal profiler, also known as an offender profiler helps to identify likely suspects and analyse patterns that can predict offences/or victims in the future.

    Someone within this role provides law enforcement organisations with a social and psychological assessment of the offender and offers strategies for the interviewing process.

    Trusted independent accreditation

    All of our courses are independently accredited from long-established awarding organisations with qualifications such as ABE, BTEC, NVQ, and A-Level. It’s easier to get a job when you have an employer recognised qualification.

    Each independent award body perform detailed, rigorous checks to ensure our courses meets their high standards.

    Study from home, at your own pace

    If you struggle to find time to study every day at a traditional college, a home learning course is an ideal solution. Over 120,000 people have studied with us from home and enjoyed full support from a tutor.

    You’ll study whenever you want, at your own pace. There are no strict deadlines (you’ll have up to a year and most of our courses require 80 hours of study- that’s around 1 hour and a half a week).

    Award-winning tutor support

    Our courses are studied entirely from home- but you still enjoy help at every step of the way from your dedicated expert tutor who can be contacted via our award-winning e-learning site.

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    After you’ve passed your course, you can use our CV writing expertise to improve your chances of finding a job. This is a free service open to all successful Open Study College students, it is unavailable elsewhere.

    Enrol on our criminology and psychological profiling level 3 course today!