BSc Criminology and Criminal Justice
About this course
BSc (Hons) in Sociology, centred on criminology and criminal justice. Core topics include data analysis, research methods, artificial intelligence and machine learning, and global and comparative perspectives. The programme spans four years and includes a study abroad year between the second and final year, a work-based placement module, and a supervised dissertation in the final year.
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