BSc Criminology
Entry requirements
A level: ABB IB: Pass, with 32 points overall with 16 points at Higher Level
About this course
Bachelor of Science in Criminology, a sociology degree centred on the study of crime, security, criminal justice systems, and social responses to deviance. Core topics include Data Analysis, Research Methods, Policy Analysis, and Social & Cultural Analysis. Students complete an independent final-year dissertation project. The first year covers core foundations through Interrogating Crime: An Introduction to Criminology, Delivering Justice: Mapping the Criminal Justice System, and Simple Liars, Damned Liars and Experts: the use of empirical research in social science. The second year introduces quantitative and qualitative investigation methods via Introduction to Social Data Analytics and Qualitative Research: Methods, Tools and Techniques, alongside theoretical study in Criminological Perspectives in Global and Post-colonial Contexts. Optional modules allow specialisation in areas such as Penology, Criminological Psychology, and Crime Scene Investigation: Methods and Applications. The final year centres on independent empirical investigation supported by Real World Research: Designing Your Dissertation and the compulsory Dissertation module.
Modules
- Delivering Justice: Mapping the Criminal Justice System
- Historical Perspectives: Deviance, Conflict, Censure and Control
- Inequalities in Everyday Worlds
- Interrogating Crime: An Introduction to Criminology
- Key Thinkers and Big Ideas: Foundations in Social Theory
- Simple Liars, Damned Liars and Experts: the use of empirical research in social science
- Understanding the Social World
- What's the problem? Debating responses to Contemporary Social Challenges
- Criminological Perspectives in Global and Post-colonial Contexts
- Introduction to Social Data Analytics
- Qualitative Research: Methods, Tools and Techniques
- What's the Solution? How to Become an Agent for Change in Public Policy
- Children and Society
- Collective Action and Social Change
- Comparative Youth Justice
- Crime Scene Investigation: Methods and Applications
- Criminological Psychology
- Education Policy and Reforms: Global Experiences and Local Contexts
- Gender and Society
- Gender, Power and Politics
- Global Transformations
- Introduction to Experiments in Social Science
- Issues in Law Enforcement and Social Control
- Race and Ethnicity in Society
- Social Stratification, Divisions and Resilience
- Techno Harms: Discrimination, Conspiracy Theories and Extremism
- Theorizing The Social World
- Victims or Perpetrators? Social and Psychological Perspectives on Older People and Crime
- Dissertation
- Real World Research: Designing Your Dissertation
- Applied Social Quantitative Analysis
- Children and Society
- Collective Action and Social Change
- Comparative Youth Justice
- Crime Scene Investigation: Methods and Applications
- Education Policy and Reforms: Global Experiences and Local Contexts
- Employability: Successful futures in Sociology and Criminology
- Exploring the Hidden Assumptions in Education
- Gender and Society
- Gender, Power and Politics
- Global Terrorism and Political Violence
- Global Transformations
- Introduction to Experiments in Social Science
- Issues in Law Enforcement and Social Control
- Penology
- Race and Ethnicity in Society
- Sexuality and Intimacy
- Social Stratification, Division and Resilience
- Techno Harms: Discrimination, Conspiracy Theories and Extremism
- Victims or Perpetrators? Social and Psychological Perspectives on Older People and Crime
- Violent and Sexual Offenders