BSc Criminology and Criminal Justice,
About this course
BSc in Sociology, combining criminological and criminal justice perspectives. Core topics include research methods. The programme includes a final-year dissertation and covers specialist areas such as victimology, penology, and policing. Modules explore crime, deviance, and the role of criminal justice institutions in contemporary society.
Modules
- Introduction to the Criminal Justice System
- The Sociological & Criminological Imagination
- Being a Social Scientist
- Victims and Victimology
- Who makes the rules? Law, Decision-Making and Human Rights
- Criminology, Crime and Society
- Research Methods in Criminology
- Criminological Theory: Content and Application
- Applied Offender Rehabilitation
- Devolution, Policy Making and Social Change
- Developing and Planning a Research Project
- Penology and Punishment
- Crime, Drugs and Alcohol
- Media, Crime & Criminal Justice
- The Criminal State: International Issues
- Culture as Deviance
- Critical Challenges in Justice for Children
- Sexual Crimes
- Dissertation
- Gender, Crime and Criminal Justice
- International Comparative Criminology
- Core and Critical Issues in Policing
- Homicide: Criminalising Death and Dying
- Risk in Modern Society
- Understanding the sex industry: Theory, policy and practice
- Understanding & Countering Terrorism & Violent Extremism
- Social and Environmental Harms
- Critical Criminology of Sports and Leisure
- Crime and the Limits of Free Speech
- Illegal Economies
- Probation and Community Justice: Policy, Practice and Partnerships