BA Criminology with Law
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).
About this course
BA (Hons) in Sociology and Law, combining sociological perspectives with legal principles. Core topics include Legal Analysis, Social & Cultural Analysis, Global & Comparative Perspective, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, and Research Methods. The course includes an optional 30-week work placement. A final-year dissertation allows for in-depth study of a chosen subject.
Modules
- Academic & Professional Media Practice
- Collaborative Communication Project
- Understanding Contemporary Britain
- Law & Government
- Introduction to Criminological Theory
- Social Research Skills
- Media, Power & Social Order
- Crime and the Criminal Justice System
- Legal Skills & Systems
- Criminal Law
- Qualitative Research Skills
- Quantitative Skills
- Human Rights Law
- Policing & Society
- Globalisation, Justice & Global Instabilities
- Victims of Crime
- Contemporary Social Theory
- Youth Crime, Gangs and Youth Justice
- Public Health & Crime
- Growing up and Growing old
- Practical Administrative Law
- Culture & Conflict
- Borders, Migration and Trafficking
- Family Law
- Doing Ethnographic Research in the Social Sciences
- Criminological Psychology
- 20-day Placement
- The Sociology of AI
- Dissertation
- Criminology of Organisations
- Criminal Justice
- Prisons & Punishment
- Drugs, Crime & Society
- Seekers, Believers and Iconoclasts
- Terrorism, Protection & Society
- International Interventions and Humanitarianism
- Crime and Criminal Justice in the 21st Century
- ‘Troubling’ Gender
- Politics and Ideology
- Intersectional Criminology
- Public International & International Criminal Law
- Jurisprudence
- Health Care Law
- Capitalism’s crimes, contracts, and crises. Decolonial perspectives in the social sciences
- Sport and Leisure Cultures
- Health, Wellbeing & Society