BSc Criminology and Sociology,
About this course
BSc in Sociology, studied alongside Criminology as an integrated programme. Core topics include Research Methods, with dedicated modules covering both quantitative and qualitative approaches. The course offers flexibility to focus more heavily on either discipline, and includes a dissertation and a research project in later years.
Modules
- The Sociological & Criminological Imagination
- Being a Social Scientist
- Individuals and Society
- Victims and Victimology
- Who makes the rules? Law, Decision-Making and Human Rights
- Introduction to Sociology
- Interrogating Quantitative Social Science Methods
- Citizenship and Surveillance
- Interrogating Qualitative Social Science Methods
- Applied Offender Rehabilitation
- Investigating Gender
- 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
- Poverty and Social Justice
- Education, Policy and Society
- Contemporary Moral Controversies
- Culture as Deviance
- Who’s in, who’s out? Inclusion and Exclusion: Socio/Criminological Perspectives
- Critical Challenges in Justice for Children
- Sexual Crimes
- Dissertation
- Gender, Crime and Criminal Justice
- Core and Critical Issues in Policing
- Philosophy, Mental Health and Illness
- Homicide: Criminalising Death and Dying
- Black Mirror Sociology: Technology and Society
- 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
- Social Movements, Social Policy and Social Change
- Illegal Economies
- Probation and Community Justice: Policy, Practice and Partnerships
- Race and Nation