BA (Hons) Criminology

Year 1

CRI1005 Criminology and the Modern World (20 credits)

CRI1016 Power, Knowledge and Crime (20 credits)

CRI1017 Critical Thinking and Analysis (20 credits)

CRI1123 Histories of Crime, Policing and Punishment (20 credits)

CRI1124 Introduction to Criminological Theory (20 credits)

CRI1125 Introduction to the Criminal Justice Process (20 credits)

Language modules in French, Spanish or Mandarin, delivered at the Edge Hill Language Centre, are available to study as an integral part of this degree. A single Language module can be studied instead of CRI1016 Power, Knowledge and Crime.

Year 2

CRI2027 Crime, Law and Society (20 credits)

CRI2222 Doing Criminological Research (20 credits)

CRI2225 Critical Criminological Theory (20 credits)

You will select three of the following modules:

CRI2020 Youth Justice 1 (20 credits)

CRI2021 Youth Justice 2 (20 credits)

CRI2023 'Race', Crime and Criminology (20 credits)

CRI2024 Crime, Media and Criminology (20 credits)

CRI2025 Gender, Sex and Violence (20 credits)

CRI2026 Work Experience (20 credits)

CRI2223 Generating Reputations (20 credits)

CRI2224 Violence and Society (20 credits)

CRI2226 Challenging Childhoods (20 credits)

If you studied a Language module in Year 1, you may wish to study a further Language module in Year 2. This would form an integral part of your degree in place of one of the optional modules above.

Year 3

CRI3020 Dissertation (40 credits)

You will select four of the following modules:

CRI3021 Crimes of the Powerful 1 (20 credits)

CRI3022 Crimes of the Powerful 2 (20 credits)

CRI3023 Crime and Place (20 credits)

CRI3024 Criminology and Philosophy (20 credits)

CRI3109 The Politics of Policing (20 credits)

CRI3110 The Politics of Imprisonment (20 credits)

CRI3112 Justice, Rights and the State (20 credits)

CRI3113 Expanding the Criminological Imagination (20 credits)

SPY3110 Critical Terrorism Studies (20 credits)

SPY3112 Desire: Law, Politics, Ethics, Difference (20 credits)

If you studied Language modules in Years 1 and 2, you may wish to study a further Language module in Year 3. This would form an integral part of your degree in place of one of the optional modules above.

Optional modules provide an element of choice within the programme curriculum. The availability of optional modules may vary from year to year and will be subject to minimum student numbers being achieved. This means that the availability of specific optional modules cannot be guaranteed. Optional module selection may also be affected by timetabling requirements.