BA Criminology
Entry requirements
For 2027 entry: 112–128 UCAS tariff points (A-level grades BBC–ABB) including a minimum of 2 A-levels or equivalent qualifications. We also accept a wide range of vocational qualifications including BTEC Extended Diploma (grade DMM–DDM) and T Levels (Merit). You’ll find many more listed in the table below.
About this course
BA (Hons) in Sociology, examining social structures, inequality and cultural analysis. Core topics include Research Methods, Data Analysis, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Social & Cultural Analysis, and Global & Comparative Perspective. Students undertake a final-year dissertation and can choose between a 30-week sandwich placement or a shorter four-week placement.
Modules
- Introduction to Criminological Theory
- Social Research Skills
- Crime & Control in the Digital Age
- Media, Power & Social Order
- Crime & the Criminal Justice System
- Social Inequality & Exclusion
- Qualitative Research Skills
- Quantitative Skills
- Victims of Crime
- Policing & Society
- Borders, Migration & Trafficking
- Globalisation, Justice & Global Instabilities
- Youth, Crime, Gangs & Youth Justice
- Growing Up & Growing Old
- Public Health & Crime
- Doing Ethnographic Research in the Social Sciences
- Contemporary Social Theory
- Culture and Conflict
- Criminological Psychology
- 20-day Placement
- The Sociology of AI
- Dissertation
- Criminology of Organisations
- Drugs, Crime and Society
- Prisons & Punishment
- Crime and Criminal Justice in the 21st Century
- International Interventions and Humanitarianism
- Seekers, Believers and Iconoclasts
- Terrorism, Protection and Society
- Intersectional Criminology
- Politics & Ideology
- ‘Troubling’ Gender
- Capitalism’s crimes, contracts, and crises. Decolonial perspectives in the social sciences
- Sport & Leisure Cultures
- Health, Wellbeing & Society