BA Criminology
Entry requirements
A Level: ABB. IB: 6,5,5 at Higher Level with a minimum of 32 points overall.. BTEC: BTEC Extended Diploma, Diploma and Subsidiary Diploma are all considered.
About this course
Bachelor of Arts in Criminology BA, a sociology degree exploring the causes and consequences of crime, justice, and societal responses. Core topics include Data Analysis and Research Methods. Students complete a dissertation in the final year. The first year covers foundational concepts through compulsory modules such as Contemporary Criminological Issues, Causes of Crime, Discovering Social Problems, Social Research I, Crime, Justice and Society, and Violence in a Global Context. The second year expands into policing, punishment, and social context via modules including Criminology and its Critics, Social Research II, Contemporary Issues in Policing, Prisons, Punishment and Penality, Victimology, Histories of Criminal Justice and Empire, Youth, Crime and Justice, Social Psychology, Housing, Home and Place: Issues in Policy, Media and Society, Race and Racism, Enterprising Solutions to Social Problems, and Sociology of Health and Illness. The final year allows students to specialise through optional modules such as Crime and the City, Genocide and Mass Atrocities, Harmful Societies: Crime, Social Harm and Social Justice, Drugs: Society, Politics and Policy, Psychology and Crime, Wrongful Conviction, Mental Health and Society, Professional Development, Policing Migration: victims, villains and global border regimes, Social Policy, Inequality and the Life Course, Power, Control and Resistance, Quantitative Data Analysis, and Technology & Society, alongside the Social Policy, Sociology and Criminology Dissertation.
Modules
- Contemporary Criminological Issues
- Causes of Crime
- Discovering Social Problems
- Social Research I
- Crime, Justice and Society
- Violence in a Global Context
- Criminology and its Critics
- Social Research II
- Contemporary Issues in Policing
- Prisons, Punishment and Penality
- Victimology
- Histories of Criminal Justice and Empire
- Youth, Crime and Justice
- Social Psychology
- Housing, Home and Place: Issues in Policy
- Media and Society
- Race and Racism
- Enterprising Solutions to Social Problems
- Sociology of Health and Illness
- Social Policy, Sociology and Criminology Dissertation
- Crime and the City
- Genocide and Mass Atrocities
- Harmful Societies: Crime, Social Harm and Social Justice
- Drugs: Society, Politics and Policy
- Psychology and Crime
- Wrongful Conviction
- Mental Health and Society
- Professional Development
- Policing Migration: victims, villains and global border regimes
- Social Policy, Inequality and the Life Course
- Power, Control and Resistance
- Quantitative Data Analysis
- Technology & Society