BSc Social Policy with Criminology
About this course
BSc (Hons) in Sociology and Social Policy, covering the intersection of social structures, institutions and welfare policy. Core topics include statistics, research methods, policy analysis, ethics and professional practice, artificial intelligence and machine learning, and global and comparative perspective. Students can undertake a professional work placement year through the Diploma in Professional Practice, and an international study period through the Diploma in International Academic Studies.
Modules
- Understanding Crime, Harm and Deviance
- The Criminal Justice System
- Introduction to Social Policy and Social Justice
- Making and Delivering Policy
- Contemporary Social Policy Issues
- Education: Policy and Practice
- Policies for Families and Children
- Social Survey Methods
- Social Policy: Concepts and Theories
- Policy Analysis: Skills, Tools and Techniques
- Qualitative Research Methods
- Policing and Society
- Environmental Crime
- State Crime
- Victims of Crime
- Young People, Crime and Harms
- Understanding Punishment
- Terrorism and Political Violence
- Policing & the Law
- Restorative Justice
- Exploring Crime and the Media
- Diploma in Professional Practice
- Diploma in International Academic Studies (DIAS)
- Prisons, Punishment and Power
- Crime, Social Order and Social Control
- Dissertation
- International Social Policy
- Drugs and Crime
- Gender, Crime and Justice
- Cybercrime
- Corporate Crime
- Life After Crime and Criminal Justice
- Surveillance and the Law
- Crime and the Media
- Terrorism and Political Violence
- Psychology and Crime
- Green Criminology and Environmental Crime
- Global Crime
- Gender and Social Policy
- Migration, 'Race' and Ethnicity
- Contemporary Issues in Health Policy
- Ageing and Society
- Mental health and disability
- The Environment, Social Justice and Sustainable Social Policy