BSc Criminology
Entry requirements
GCSE: GCSE English Language/Literature and Mathematics at grade C/grade 4 or above. Level 2 equivalencies will also be accepted. You must fulfil our GCSE entry requirements as well as one of the requirements listed below. UCAS tariff: 104 UCAS points A level: 104 UCAS points BTEC: DMM T level: Merit Foundation Degree: Applicants will be considered for entry into first year. Access to HE: 104 UCAS points from 45 credits at Level 3 Scottish Highers: 104 UCAS points Irish Leaving Certificate: 104 UCAS points IB: 30 points
About this course
BSc (Hons) in Sociology, exploring social structures, crime, and criminal justice. Core topics include Statistics, Research Methods, Project Management, Critical & Analytical Thinking, and Ethics & Professional Practice. The course includes a supervised dissertation allowing independent research, and a work-based learning module connects academic study with professional practice.
Modules
- Contemporary Challenges in Crime and Society
- Criminal Justice and Human Rights
- Culture, Power and Deviance
- Social Justice in Action
- Understanding Criminology
- Globalisation, Society and Crime
- Research Problems and Methods: Making it count
- Research Problems and Methods: Qualitatively better
- Theoretical Criminology
- Critical Victimology
- Critical Perspectives on Policing
- Environmental Justice
- Human Rights, Genocide and Resistance
- Internet, Risk and Security
- Violence in Society
- Dissertation
- Work: Practice and Reflection
- Bodies: Biology to Blushing
- Crime, Society and Racialisation
- Critical Approaches to (Counter) Terrorism
- Digital Society
- Gender, Crime and Criminal Justice
- Migration and Socio-Legal Dynamics
- Prisons and Punishment
- Probation and Rehabilitation
- The Criminal Justice Process