BA Criminology and Criminal Justice
Entry requirements
A level: BBC in three A Levels. IB: 554 in three Higher Levels or 29 points.
About this course
BA (Hons) in Sociology and Social Policy, combining criminology with criminal justice studies. Core topics include Data Analysis, Research Methods, Policy Analysis, and Human Behaviour. An Independent Study Project in Criminal Justice is completed in the final year, involving independent research under supervision. A placement year option provides work experience in criminal justice agencies, charities, or community organisations.
Modules
- Understanding Crime, Understanding Criminal Justice
- Policing, Prevention and Punishment
- Murder, Death and Destruction
- Becoming a Social Scientist
- Imagining Social Order & Deviance
- Social Science Methods
- Challenges and Issues in Criminal Justice
- Data Analysis in Social Sciences
- The American South: US Summer School (Level 5)
- Crime Across Borders
- Crime and Justice in Practice: Voices from the Margins
- Crime, Morality and the Media
- Social Sciences Placement
- Public Policy and How To Make It
- Globalisation and its Discontents
- Social Sciences at Work
- Independent Study Project in Criminal Justice
- Engaged Social Science
- The American South: US Summer School (Level 6)
- Prisons and Imprisonment
- Rethinking 'Participation' in Crime control, Punishment and Criminology
- Hatred, Justice and the State
- The Extreme Right in Western Europe
- Sex, Death, Desire: Psychoanalysis in Social Context
- Work Placement for Social Sciences Final Year Students
- State crimes and crimes against humanity
- Advanced Issues in Policing
- Migration, Crime and (In)Security
- Environmental Harm, Justice and Global Inequalities