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BA Criminology with Psychology

University of Sussex

Institution
University of Sussex
Level
undergraduate
Subject
Criminology with Psychology BA (Hons)
Duration
3 years
UCAS code
L3CC
Typical offer
A-level BBB, IB 30

Entry requirements

A level: BBB or BBC IB: 30 points

About this course

BA (Hons) in Psychology and Sociology, combining criminological and psychological perspectives to study crime and deviance. Core topics include Research Methods and Human Behaviour. Students complete a final-year project involving independent research, question formulation, and study planning.

Modules

  • Critical Reading and Writing for Criminologists
  • Psychology of Child Development
  • Themes and Perspectives in Sociology I
  • Thinking Like a Criminologist
  • Criminological Classics
  • Criminology in Theory and Perspective
  • Social Psychology and Individual Differences
  • Understanding the Criminal Justice System
  • Biological Psychology
  • Designing Social Research
  • Psychology of Cognitive Processes
  • A Sociology of Generations and Social Change? From Passive to Active Generations
  • Citizenship, Activism and Resistance
  • Crime and the Media (Aut)
  • Drugs, Crime and Deviant Leisure
  • Gender, Crime and Justice
  • Identity, Violence and Transgression
  • Into the Lions Den: An Exploration (A)
  • Police and Policing
  • Sociology of Emotions and Mental Health
  • The Climate Crisis, Criminology & the Justice System
  • The Politics of Criminalisation (Autumn)
  • Doing Social Research: working with qualitative data
  • Precarity and the Politics of Work (Spr)
  • Punishment and Penology (Spr)
  • Social Research Methods: Analysing Quantitative Data
  • The Alchemy of Race and Racism (Spring)
  • The Sociology of Human Rights
  • Victimology and Emotion
  • Criminology Project
  • Understanding Clinical Psychology
  • Advanced Topics in Psychology
  • (Im)mobilities and the Criminal Justice System
  • Carceral Technologies
  • Class, Power and the State (Aut)
  • Crimes against Humanity (Aut)
  • Critical Perspectives on Terrorism
  • Digital Activism and Citizenship in Datafied Societies
  • Technology and the Human
  • The Death Penalty
  • Criminology of Violence and Death
  • Neurocriminology
  • Riots, Strikes, Revolts
  • Temporalities - Histories - Hauntologies (Spr)
  • Understanding Gangs (Spr)
  • Visual Criminology (Spr)