Law with Criminology

Explore the idea of crime in its political, moral, and theoretical context using alternative approaches, methodologies and standpoints to inform critical perspectives on debates about crime, criminality, and the criminal justice system.

In this module, you'll identify key theorists in the discipline of criminology and outline and engage critically with the framework ideas, theories and practices that inform their respective approaches.

To support the development of skills necessary for the effective study of law and a graduate career and to introduce you to work-related learning.

Explain and discuss the constituent institutions and processes of English and EU legal systems and the broader legal and political contexts within which they operate.

Explore the primary concepts of criminal responsibility, by reference to specific offences and defences.

Explore the structure and substantive content of common law and statutory principles that comprise English Contract Law, using relevant research skills and legal databases. You'll apply these to hypothetical scenarios to produce persuasive legal arguments and reasoned conclusions.

Explore critical explanations of how the state responds to young people breaking, or at risk of breaking, the law or acting in an antisocial way.

This module aims to introduce you to key issues and debates relating to the justification and use of punishment following a conviction for a criminal offence.

Explore the meaning and legal scope of a range of civil wrongs which comprise tortious liability in English Law, including how and why they are created and breached, and with what legal effect, including remedies and limitations.

Consolidate and build on learning of skills development from Year 1 by introducing more advanced legal, academic and employability skills to support the effective study of law and graduate career planning and action.

Explore ley legal concepts and principles which comprise the structure of international and European Law and evaluate their role and effectiveness.

In this module, you'll explore the use of recreational drugs within an historical context to reflect on the construction of the distinction legal/illegal drugs use. As well as evaluate the effectiveness of policies designed to control drug use from a comparative perspective.

Our module introduces you to the legislation, policy and investigative considerations to prevent and detect crime committed using digital technology. Digital Investigation is an increasingly important area in providing evidence to support investigations and prosecutions.

In this module, you'll explore the law governing family relationships, and assess critically the substantive legal provisions applicable to marriage and cohabitation, parents, children, and the state.

Examine the law which guarantees and promotes of human and peoples’ rights and evaluate critically the balance drawn between the protection of individual and collective rights and the pursuit of competing interests such as the protection of national security, economic stability, a healthy and sustainable environment and public order.

Examine patterns of violence across different contexts, through sociological theories, concepts and methods, with a view to analysing and reflecting on representations of violence.

Explore how collective identities determine how an individual encounters crime and the criminal justice system and its impact on determining criminal justice policy in relation to diverse identities and justice.

To explore the origins, rationale, principles and operation of natural and positive law sources relating to the English law of equity and trusts, and apply this law to practical scenarios to resolve the legal issues therein.

During this module, you'll consolidate and extend the professional and employability skills learnt in Years 1 and 2 by exploring more advanced employability skillsl. And continue work-related learning to assist in the transition into a graduate career/post-graduate study.

In this module, you will explore the rationale, principles, and operation of cases and statutes of English Land Law and apply these rules to client-based problem scenarios to produce persuasive legal arguments and conclusions.

Develop and extend your critical understanding of the problem of global human trade, exploitation, abuse and control in contemporary society and evaluate the effectiveness of policy and other responses to migratory patterns and control.

Critically explore a range of core ideas and debates around the use of contemporary imprisonment, both domestically and globally to support reflective thinking and analysis of the use of prison as a method of punishment.

This module is designed to expose you to international humanitarian law, including the law of armed conflict, international criminal law as defined by the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, and to the law relating to human trafficking and its effect on the UK.

You'll explore how law works in a community setting. We'll facilitate and empower you to apply practice-based skills, learnt in Years 1 and 2, to highlight, communicate, and resolve issues of concern to communities using a law-in-action approach.

Develop research skills by enabling the self-directed planning, research, and production of an independently produced piece of legal writing which addresses critically a legally orientated topic or issue of interest.

Throughout this module, you'll engage critically with theoretical perspectives and debates around the body and sexuality in all its manifestations.