BA (Hons) Criminology with Psychology

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Duration and delivery: 3 years full-time, or 4 years full-time with a minimum 30-week placement

Entry requirements: 104 - 120 tariff points

Required subjects:

None

If English is not your first language: IELTS (Academic) 6.0 with a minimum of 6.0 in reading or writing and 5.5 in all other components or equivalent

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Explore crime from criminological and psychological perspectives. Develop your understanding of social and individual causes and consequences of criminal behaviour.

Complementary disciplines

This course provides the opportunity to study units in criminology and psychology. In criminology units (75% of course) you explore crime and criminal justice from a social sciences perspective. In psychology units (25% of course) you develop understanding of individual development and functioning. Similarities and contrasts between the two disciplines will enable you to develop a broad understanding of offending and deviance.

Tailor your studies

In your first year you will take core units in criminology and core introductory units in psychology. In your second and final years you can choose to what extent you focus on further psychological, sociological, criminological and social anthropological aspects by choosing from units such as Personality, Intelligence and Social Psychology, Criminological Psychology, Youth Crime, Gangs and On-Road Life, Contemporary Social Theory, Psychology of Sexualities, Face Recognition and its Disorders, Cultural Psychology, Psychology of Cybersecurity, Politics and Ideology, Troubling Gender, Ethnographies of Crime and Policing and Terrorism, Protection and Society. This enables you to create a bespoke degree to reflect your chosen interests or career aspirations.

Ideal platform

The BA (Hons) Criminology with Psychology degree will provide you with the ideal platform for further specialisation in many careers, particularly in areas where a deep understanding of criminal behaviour is valuable, as well as postgraduate study opportunities.

Exploring crime from different perspectives enables you to develop a broad understanding of crime and question notions of criminal justice.

Dr Caroline Andow, Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Course Leader for BA (Hons) Criminology with Psychology

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