Criminology & Criminal Justice

Explore alternative conceptions of ‘crime’ and how this affects how ‘crime’ is perceived in society. Discover how these conceptions based on the idea of ‘social harm’, affect our perceptions of crime, the criminal, and criminalisation.

This module supports the development of a range of transferable academic skills which will underpin future research and written/oral assessment. And facilitate independent learning and reflective practice.

This module outlines the history of punishment and criminal justice in the UK. Showing how systems of criminal justice are, and have been, influenced by the social, political, religious, cultural, and theoretical trends and themes and cannot be understood outside that context.

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.

This module will introduce the major stages, processes, procedures and personnel comprising the Criminal Justice system in England and Wales.

This module will support your development and understanding of methodological topics and theories within criminology. Learn how to utilise this to inform a historical understanding of the development of criminology as a colonial enterprise, and current debates around decolonising research at universities.

Develop and extend your understanding of current debates in theory and research. To support the application of strategies and decisions in relation to research practice and planning.

Explore developments in policing history and the sociology of policing and security. Apply explanations and frameworks critically to current issues in policing and security.

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 domestic and international policy, and theoretical debates, relating to violence against women and girls (VAWG).

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.

Develop informed insights into career progression and translate this knowledge into practice. While increasing your understanding of how policy is operationalised in workplace settings.

This module will support you in undertaking independent study in an area of your choice relating to criminology and criminal justice.

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.

During this module, you'll explore theoretical ideas and issues associated with crimes of the powerful such as corporate crime, state crime and genocide.

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.

Understand the links between feminist thought and other critical academic approaches that examine power and knowledge production, in the context of explaining crime and criminal justice.

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.