Criminology BA (Hons)

Course Structure

Year 1

•     3 compulsory modules in semester 1
•      3 compulsory modules in semester 2

Modules

• Communicating Ideas
• Fundamentals of Criminological Theory
• Crime and Deviance in the Contemporary World
• Preventing and Punishing
• Victimology
• Introduction to the Criminal Justice System

Year 2

•      2 compulsory modules and 1 optional module in semester 1
•      1 compulsory module and 2 optional modules in semester 2

Modules

• Social Research Methods 1
• Working with Criminology
• Issues in Criminal Justice
• Crime and the Economy
• Ethnicity, Nationality and Social Control
• Social Research Methods 2
• The Culture of Contemporary Policing

Year 3

•      Your Criminal Investigation module across semesters 1 and 2
•      2 optional modules in semester 1
•     2 optional modules in semester 2

Modules

• Social Science Investigation
• Sex Work
• Critical Criminology
• Spatial Sociology
• Crime and Media
• Prisons and Penology
• Youth and Resistance
• State, Nation, and Migration
• Health, Illness, and Society
• Death
• Green Criminology: Social and Ecological Justice