BSc Criminology and Social Policy,
About this course
BSc in Sociology and Social Policy, combining criminology with social policy. Core topics include research methods in criminology and social policy. Modules cover victimology, penology, health policy, policing, social justice, and justice for children. The programme culminates in a final-year dissertation.
Modules
- The Sociological & Criminological Imagination
- Introducing Social Policy: Key Concepts and History
- Being a Social Scientist
- Victims and Victimology
- Criminology, Crime and Society
- Principles and Challenges for Social Policy
- Research Methods in Criminology
- Health Policy
- Devolution, Policy Making and Social Change
- Penology and Punishment
- Poverty and Social Justice
- Developing and Planning a Research Project
- Crime, Drugs and Alcohol
- Media, Crime & Criminal Justice
- The Criminal State: International Issues
- Principles of Social Policy
- The Family and Children: Ethics and Policy
- Dissertation
- Critical Challenges in Justice for Children
- Sexual Crimes
- Gender, Crime and Criminal Justice
- Core and Critical Issues in Policing
- Homicide: Criminalising Death and Dying
- Social Movements, Social Policy and Social Change
- Race and Nation
- Understanding the sex industry: Theory, policy and practice
- Who’s in, who’s out? Inclusion and Exclusion: Socio/Criminological Perspectives
- Crime and the Limits of Free Speech
- Illegal Economies
- Probation and Community Justice: Policy, Practice and Partnerships