SOCIAL AND POLICY STUDIES
Criminology
Criminology and Sociology
BSc (Hons) DPS/DIntS*: 4 years full-time with placement year UCAS code: M900
BSc (Hons) DPS/DIntS*: 4 years full-time with placement year UCAS code: L3M0
BSc (Hons): 3 years full-time UCAS code: M901
BSc (Hons): 3 years full-time UCAS code: L3M9
Typical offers A level: ABB IB: 34 (6,5,5 HL) BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma: DDM
Typical offers A level: ABB IB: 34 (6,5,5 HL) BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma: DDM
On this course you will develop a detailed understanding of the nature, scale and scope of crime and its causes. You will explore the criminal justice system and how it responds to crime, as well as the key factors relating to offender rehabilitation. The programme draws on both classic and contemporary approaches to crime prevention, as well as the impact of social problems such as poverty, inequality and social exclusion on criminal behaviour.
This course combines two vibrant subjects to offer both a detailed understanding of crime, its causes and prevention and a broader knowledge of how societies are shaped by social forces related to gender and ethnicitybased discrimination, cultures, identities, globalization and inequality.
The degree brings together the theories and research methods used to understand crime, deviance and inequality in the UK and beyond. Throughout the course you will explore issues of social justice and learn about the ways in which crime and criminal justice policy and practice can be used to support and protect, but also further marginalise, some of the most vulnerable groups in society.
Year 1
Areas studied include introducing criminology, becoming a criminologist, crime and social welfare, understanding social policy, identities and inequalities, global, social, and cultural change and an introduction to research methods.
Year 2
Areas studied include criminological theory, the criminal justice system, crime prevention, intoxication and society and advanced research methods.
Optional placement/study year
Optional professional placement and/or overseas study.
Final year
Areas studied include youth justice, understanding policing, rehabilitation and recovery and a research-based criminology dissertation.
Graduate destinations
Our students go on to a wide variety of careers in the private, public and voluntary sectors. Some enter welfare-related careers such as probation and social work, while others join the police, the prison service, management training schemes, and the personnel departments of large companies. A number go on to do postgraduate study or teacher training.
The degree brings together core and advanced modules in criminology and sociology. This gives students a unique ability to analyse intersections of criminal justice and social change from global processes of migration to health and consumption. This is an ideal course for those who have an interest in crime and social problems as well as broader structures, processes and cultures that shape our lives and societies.
Year 1
Areas studied include introducing criminology, identities and inequalities, understanding social policy, global, social and cultural change, crime and social welfare, the sociological imagination, and introduction to research methods.
Year 2
Areas studied include social theories, understanding policing, crime prevention, the criminal justice system, criminological theory, intoxication and society and advanced research methods.
Optional placement/study year
Optional professional placement and/or overseas study.
Final year
Areas studied include youth justice, rehabilitation and recovery, the individual and society, consumption, culture and everyday life and a research-based dissertation.
Graduate destinations
Recent graduate destinations include Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, Saatchi, BBC, Sky, Vodafone, BUPA, Ministry of Justice, British Transport Police, NHS, National Autistic Society, National Offender Management Service, National Crime Service, HSBC, Macmillan Science and Education. *Diploma in Professional/International Studies
*Diploma in Professional/International Studies
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