Criminology-BA

Modules provide you with a core grounding in criminological theory and concepts, social research methods, as well as specific topics on crime, deviance and criminal justice. Please note all modules are subject to change.

In previous years modules have included:

• Understanding Crime
• Criminal Justice Landscape^^*
• Introduction to Research
• Conceptualising Society.

Candidates shall also study and be assessed in modules to the value of credits from Level 1 open modules offered by The Board of Studies of the School of Applied Social Sciences or another Board of Studies (including appropriate credit-bearing language modules offered by the Centre for Foreign Language Study).

You will build on and extend your criminological knowledge further developing core skills in research. Modules now become more specialised and the questions surrounding criminological enquiry become more focused and intense. The theoretical detail of criminological enquiry is expanded in both the core theory and methods modules.

• Contemporary Criminological Theory
• Social Research Methods.

• Sociology of Social Exclusion
• Crime, Power and Social Inequalities
• Sport, Crime and Deviance
• Media, Sport and Society
• Sports Development: Policies and Practices
• Self, Identity and Society
• Modules to the value of credits from open modules offered by another Board of Studies (including appropriate credit-bearing language modules offered by the Centre for Foreign Language Study).

You will concentrate on more complex criminological issues and themes and will also take a double module Dissertation, which provides an opportunity to explore a criminological topic in greater depth.

• Issues in Criminal Justice
• Cybercrime: Crime in the Information Age
• Sociology of Punishment
• Sociology of Forensic Science and Criminal Investigation
• Drugs, Crime and Society
• Sociology of Gender and Sexuality
• Rural Studies and Social Policy
• Social Policy
• Sociology of Work and Professions
• Crime, Justice and the Sex Industry
• Sociology of Health and Medicine
• Sports Policy in Action
• Modules to the value of credits offered within the School or from another Board of Studies (including appropriate credit-bearing language modules offered by the Centre for Foreign Language Study).

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We are part of the SOCRATES/ERASMUS programme which encourages students to study for part of their course in a university of another EU country.

We currently have links with the universities of Helsinki in Finland and Duisburg-Essen in Germany. Students can also apply to the university-wide international exchange programme with universities in North America, Asia, Australia and New Zealand.