BA Criminal Justice and Criminology
Entry requirements
A level: AAB (specific subject requirements) BTEC: DDD IB: 35 overall (6,5,5 higher).
About this course
BA in Criminal Justice and Criminology, a sociology and social policy degree focused on the study of crime, legal systems, and societal responses. Core topics include Statistics, Critical & Analytical Thinking. Students can apply to join the Quantitative Research Methods pathway at the end of the second year. The first year covers core foundations through Criminal Justice Study and Research Skills, Understanding Crime and Criminology, Crime, Inequality and Social Issues, Introduction to Criminal Law, and Introduction to Criminal Justice. The second year examines Crime Prevention and Crime Science, Criminology: Theories and Concepts, Policing, and Researching Crime and Criminal Justice, with optional modules such as Truth, Lies and Crime and International Human Rights Law. The third year involves compulsory studies in Transnational and Comparative Criminology, Penology, and a Final Year Project alongside quantitative research methods, while optional topics include State Crime and Immorality and Global Terrorism and Violence.
Modules
- Criminal Justice Study and Research Skills
- Understanding Crime and Criminology
- Crime, Inequality and Social Issues
- Introduction to Criminal Law
- Introduction to Criminal Justice
- Crime Prevention and Crime Science
- Criminology: Theories and Concepts
- Policing
- Researching Crime and Criminal Justice
- Truth, Lies and Crime
- Social Sciences and Emergencies: Contexts, Theories and Approaches
- International Human Rights Law
- Crime, Race and Ethnicity
- International Law
- Gender and Society
- Transnational and Comparative Criminology
- Penology
- Final Year Project
- Quantitative Social Research I
- Quantitative Social Research II: Advance Statistical Modelling and Crime Data
- Final Year Quantitative Project
- State Crime and Immorality
- Social Sciences and Emergencies: Case Studies & Critical Analysis
- Disability Law
- Disability and Development
- Crime, Law and Social Change: Crime and Criminal Justice in Historical Perspective
- Global Terrorism and Violence
- Gender and the Law
- Gender, Technologies and the Body
- Cyberlaw: Law and the Regulation of the Information Society