Departmental Criminology Course
Master departmental criminology for criminal law practice. Learn to analyze crime data, map hotspots, interpret French administrative statistics, and turn trends into targeted patrol plans, clear reports, and evidence-based recommendations.

4 to 360 hours of flexible workload
valid certificate in your country
What Will I Learn?
The Departmental Criminology Course gives you practical tools to analyze local crime patterns, map hotspots with QGIS, and work confidently with French administrative data. Learn to collect and clean open datasets, interpret trends with basic statistics, and design targeted, measurable interventions. Build clear, evidence-based recommendations and communicate results effectively to key institutional partners.
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- Crime data analysis: apply time series, rates, and regression to real case trends.
- Spatial crime mapping: build clear hotspot maps in QGIS for rapid patrol decisions.
- Open data collection: harvest, clean, and document French crime and INSEE datasets.
- Operational policing plans: turn analytics into targeted patrols and prevention actions.
- Contextual crime reading: link trends to demographics, economy, mobility, and media.
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