BSc Criminology and Criminal Justice
About this course
BSc (Hons) in Sociology, focusing on the study of crime, harm, and deviance. Core topics include research methods, data analysis, and a global and comparative perspective. The programme includes an optional intercalary study abroad year or a professional placement in the criminal justice system, and concludes with a final-year dissertation.
Modules
- Skills for Criminology Students
- Understanding Crime, Harm and Deviance
- The Criminal Justice System
- Theories of Crime, Harm and Criminalisation
- Law for Criminologists
- From Crime Scene to Court
- Policing and Society
- State Crime
- Research Methods for Criminologists
- Applied Criminology
- Environmental Crime
- Victims of Crime
- Young People, Crime and Harms
- Understanding Punishment
- Terrorism and Political Violence
- Policing & the Law
- The Comparative Politics of Democracy and Dictatorship
- Restorative Justice
- Exploring Crime and the Media
- Policy for Children and Families
- Criminology Abroad
- Criminology Placement and Work-Based Learning
- Prisons, Punishment and Power
- Dissertation
- Crime, Social Order and Social Control
- Preparing for your Criminology Dissertation
- Lived Experience and Criminal Justice
- Drugs and Crime
- Gender, Crime and Justice
- Cybercrime
- Corporate Crime
- Life After Crime and Criminal Justice
- Surveillance and the Law
- Conflict Transformation and Peace
- Crime and the Media
- Terrorism and Political Violence
- Psychology and Crime
- Green Criminology and Environmental Crime
- Global Crime
- Migration, 'Race' and Ethnicity