BA Sociology and Criminology
Entry requirements
A Level: ABB. IB: 6,5,5 at Higher Level, to include English 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 Sociology and Criminology, a sociology degree exploring the roots of crime, justice, and inequality. Core topics include Social & Cultural Analysis, Research Methods, and Data Analysis. The course investigates societal problems and institutional structures across a three-year undergraduate structure. The first year covers foundational concepts through modules such as Causes of Crime, Discovering Social Problems, The Sociological Imagination, and Introduction to Social Divisions. The second year advances theoretical understanding and methodological skills via Criminology and its Critics, Modern Sociological Theory, Social Research II, and Gender and Sexuality, alongside a wide range of optional topics addressing class, race, and penality. The final year involves independent research through the Social Policy, Sociology and Criminology Dissertation, complemented by specialised options examining urban crime, genocide, psychology, and technology.
Modules
- Causes of Crime
- Discovering Social Problems
- The Sociological Imagination
- Introduction to Social Divisions
- Social Research I
- Violence in a Global Context
- Criminology and its Critics
- Modern Sociological Theory
- Social Research II
- Gender and Sexuality
- Poverty, Class and Inequality
- Race and Racism
- Prisons, Punishment and Penality
- Histories of Criminal Justice and Empire
- Housing, Home and Place: Issues in Policy
- Media and Society
- Social Psychology
- Education, Policy and Social Justice
- Enterprising Solutions to Social Problems
- Terror, Threat and Security
- Youth, Crime and Justice
- Contemporary Issues in Policing
- Victimology
- Social Policy, Sociology and Criminology Dissertation
- Crime and the City
- Genocide and Mass Atrocities
- Harmful Societies: Crime, Social Harm and Social Justice
- Psychology and Crime
- Drugs: Society, Politics and Policy
- Wrongful Conviction
- Selling the self? Sex, Gender and Consumer Culture
- Mental Health and Society
- Sociology of Success and Spectacle
- Social Policy, Inequality and the Life Course
- Professional Development
- Contemporary Social Theory
- Policing Migration: victims, villains and global border regimes
- Technology & Society
- Power, Control and Resistance
- Quantitative Data Analysis