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BSc Criminology and Criminal Justice

Ulster University

Institution
Ulster University
Level
undergraduate
Subject
BSc (Hons) Criminology and Criminal Justice
Duration
5 years

About this course

BSc (Hons) in Sociology, a part-time programme studied over five years. Core topics include Data Analysis, Research Methods, Critical & Analytical Thinking, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, and Global & Comparative Perspective. The programme includes a research methods module with practical data analysis training and an undergraduate dissertation. Optional modules cover areas such as policing, prisons, cybercrime, terrorism, and restorative justice.

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
  • Lived Experience and Criminal Justice
  • Drugs and Crime
  • Gender, Crime and Justice
  • Prisons, Punishment and Power
  • Cybercrime
  • Corporate Crime
  • Life After Crime and Criminal Justice
  • Surveillance and the Law
  • Conflict Transformation and Peace
  • Crime and the Media
  • Dissertation
  • Terrorism and Political Violence
  • Psychology and Crime
  • Green Criminology and Environmental Crime
  • Crime, Social Order and Social Control
  • Global Crime
  • Research Methods
  • Applied Problem Solving
  • Restorative Justice
  • Preparing for your Criminology Dissertation
  • Migration, 'Race' and Ethnicity