BA Criminology
Entry requirements
A level: BBB IB: 30 overall with 15 points from the best 3 HL subjects
About this course
BA Hons in Criminology, a sociology degree centred on the academic study of crime, criminal justice systems, and social deviance. Core topics include Statistics, Research Methods, Fieldwork, Policy Analysis, Historical Research, and Critical & Analytical Thinking. The first year establishes core foundations through modules such as Explaining Criminology, Exploring the Criminal Justice System, Doing Criminology: How We Know About Crime, Crime and Popular Culture, and A Brief History of Crime and Criminology. Moving into the second year, students deepen their methodological and theoretical understanding via Criminological Thought, Measuring Crime, and Understanding Criminological Fieldwork. The final year focuses on advanced institutional and societal responses to lawbreaking through core study in Prisons, Punishment and Society. Optional modules across the degree allow specialisation in areas such as youth justice, organised crime, cybercrime, financial crime, green criminology, and drug use. Students may also choose to undertake a substantial Criminology Dissertation in their final year.
Modules
- Explaining Criminology
- Exploring the Criminal Justice System
- Doing Criminology: How We Know About Crime
- Crime and Popular Culture
- A Brief History of Crime and Criminology
- Contemporary Social Issues 1: Power, Inequality and Everyday Life
- Developmental Psychology and Neuropsychology
- English across Space and Time
- Foundations of Language
- Handling Historical Evidence
- Medieval and Early Modern Worlds
- History of Philosophy: Ideas that Shaped the West
- Knowledge and Reality in a Complex World
- Global Challenges in World Politics
- Origins and Foundations of International Relations
- Parties, Populism and Protest
- Researching Society: Principles and Practices
- Thinking Sociologically
- Transformations in Digital Media
- Understanding Media and Culture
- Criminological Thought
- Measuring Crime
- Understanding Criminological Fieldwork
- Youth Justice
- Organised Crime
- Cybercrime and Cybercriminality
- Contemporary Issues in Policing
- Financial Crime
- Welfare States: Poverty, Policy and Politics
- Language and Creativity in Advertising
- Global Superpowers
- Politics of the Global South
- Transnational Debates on Gender and Society
- Visual Cultures
- Prisons, Punishment and Society
- Green Criminology
- Drugs, Crime and Society
- Crimes and Harms of the Powerful
- Gendered Harm and Justice
- Hate Crime
- Crime and Media
- Sex Crimes and Sexual Offending
- Criminology Dissertation
- Advanced Sociological Theories and Applications
- Health, Bodies and Social Reproduction
- The Politics of Crises and the Future of Governance
- The Politics of Borders and Migration