Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.

Program Duration: 6 Months

Get your diploma of International Criminal Law and Criminology from Caroline School of Legal Studies. Learn how the International Criminal Court works, its jurisdiction and its powers. Get in touch with the French criminal justice system as well as the basics of Criminology. This is the pathway to your degree in criminal justice or Criminology.

Criminal Law is a branch of public law which can be said to be the basis of legal systems and the very reason legal systems are required to be set in place. It is the law regarding severe wrongs that are done to the people of a country. The branch of criminal law covers the substantial law which provides us with different punishments for different crimes and how these punishments are handed to the perpetrators as well as the defenses available to them. Criminology on the other hand is the study of criminals themselves. The foundational Question of Criminology is why do criminals commit crime? In the pursuit of an answer you will study different researches done on crime and criminals including common traits of criminals, the behavioral similarities between criminals, the view of victims on criminals etc, reformative versus retributive justice etc.