BSc Criminology
Entry requirements
A level: AAB. IB: 35 points overall and 6, 6, 5 in three Higher Level subjects.
About this course
BSc (Hons) in Criminology, a sociology degree exploring crime and criminal justice institutions in contemporary society. Core topics include Data Analysis, Statistics, and Research Methods. The course includes a compulsory final-year dissertation. The first year introduces foundational concepts through compulsory modules such as Crime and society, Crime, social justice, and social policy, Criminal justice processes and practices, and Critical thinkers in criminology. The second year examines the history and politics of crime and punishment alongside qualitative and quantitative methods through compulsory modules like Global crimes of the powerful, Qualitative analysis: the power of immersion, Quantitative data analysis: the power of statistics, and Theorising crime, justice and punishment. The final year centres on the completion of the Criminology dissertation.
Modules
- Becoming a social scientist 1
- Becoming a social scientist 2
- Crime and society
- Crime, social justice, and social policy
- Criminal justice processes and practices
- Critical thinkers in criminology
- Global crimes of the powerful
- Qualitative analysis: the power of immersion
- Quantitative data analysis: the power of statistics
- The history and politics of crime and punishment
- Theorising crime, justice and punishment
- Criminology dissertation