BA Criminology and Psychology (Placement Year)
Entry requirements
A level: BBB IB: 30 overall with 15 points from the best 3 HL subjects
About this course
BA Hons in Criminology and Psychology (Placement Year), a psychology and sociology degree centred on the scientific study of crime, criminal minds, and societal responses. Core topics include Statistics, Research Methods, Fieldwork, Historical Research, Critical & Analytical Thinking, and Human Behaviour. Students undertake a professional placement year during their studies to gain practical industry experience. The first year establishes core knowledge through Cognitive and Social Psychology, Developmental Psychology and Neuropsychology, Doing Criminology: How We Know About Crime, Explaining Criminology, and Exploring the Criminal Justice System, with optional choices such as A Brief History of Crime and Criminology. The second year advances into specialised study via Cognitive Psychology, Criminological Thought, Measuring Crime, Social Psychology, and Understanding Criminological Fieldwork, alongside options like Financial Crime and Organised Crime. The final year explores targeted applications through compulsory modules such as Forensic and Criminological Psychology and Prisons, Punishment and Society. Optional modules allow students to focus on areas like Clinical Psychology, Cyberpsychology, and Green Criminology, and students may also complete a Criminology Dissertation.
Modules
- Cognitive and Social Psychology
- Developmental Psychology and Neuropsychology
- Doing Criminology: How We Know About Crime
- Explaining Criminology
- Exploring the Criminal Justice System
- A Brief History of Crime and Criminology
- Crime and Popular Culture
- Cognitive Psychology
- Criminological Thought
- Measuring Crime
- Social Psychology
- Understanding Criminological Fieldwork
- Contemporary Issues in Policing
- Financial Crime
- Organised Crime
- Cognitive Neuroscience
- Work Based Learning Year
- Forensic and Criminological Psychology
- Prisons, Punishment and Society
- Clinical Psychology
- Cognition: From Laboratory Research to Everyday Behaviour
- Crime and Media
- Criminology Dissertation
- Current Directions in Social Psychology
- Cyberpsychology
- Drugs, Crime and Society
- Gendered Harm and Justice
- Green Criminology
- Hate Crime
- Crimes and Harms of the Powerful
- Innovations in Developmental Psychology
- Sex Crimes and Sexual Offending