BA Criminology with Psychology
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 Psychology and Sociology, integrating criminological, psychological and sociological perspectives. Core topics include Research Methods, Data Analysis, Human Behaviour, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Social & Cultural Analysis, and Global & Comparative Perspective. Students may undertake a 30-week sandwich placement or a shorter placement, and complete a final-year dissertation.
Modules
- Introduction to Criminological Theory
- Development, Health & Psychological Disorders 1
- Social Research Skills
- Media, Power & Social Order
- Crime and the Criminal Justice System
- You, Me & Us: Social Psychology and Individual Differences 1
- Qualitative Research Skills
- Victims of Crime
- Quantitative Skills
- Applying Psychological Theories to Forensic Psychology
- Policing & Society
- Youth Crime, Gangs & Youth Justice
- Borders, Migration and Trafficking
- Growing up & Growing old
- Public Health & Crime
- Globalisation, Justice and Global Instabilities
- Doing Ethnographic Research in the Social Sciences
- Contemporary Social Theory
- Culture & Conflict
- You, Me & Us: Social Psychology and Individual Differences 2
- Criminological Psychology
- 20-day Placement
- The Sociology of AI
- Dissertation
- Criminology of Organisations
- Investigative Forensic Psychology
- Prisons & Punishment
- Drugs, Crime & Society
- Seekers, Believers & Iconoclasts
- Terrorism, Protection & Society
- Intersectional Criminology
- ‘Troubling’ Gender
- Crime & Criminal Justice in the 21st Century
- Politics & Ideology
- International Interventions & Humanitarianism
- Psychology of Social Media & Video Games
- Forensic Applications for Face Processing
- Cultural Psychology
- Cybersecurity & Cyberwarfare
- Capitalism’s crimes, contracts, & crises. Decolonial perspectives in the social sciences
- Sport & Leisure Cultures
- Health, Wellbeing & Society