BSc (Hons) Criminology and Psychology

This combination is ideal for students wishing to study the relationship between human behavior and the social context and structures in which crime, harm, and victimization occur. Criminology is broadly concerned with how crime and deviance are understood, the efforts made to control crime, and the consequences of crime for offenders, victims, and society. You’ll explore the nature and development of the Criminal Justice System, the various agencies that this system is comprised of and their formal roles and responsibilities in the delivery of justice. The Psychology element of the program examines exciting ideas and findings from a wide range of areas in psychology including developmental psychology, psychobiology, social psychology, cognitive neuropsychology, and a variety of contemporary applied topics. Our courses are informed by cutting-edge research and will develop your own critical thinking and research skills. Accredited by the British Psychological Society, the course is taught by staff who are actively engaged in research with specialisms in social psychology, developmental psychology, cognition and neuropsychology, biological psychology health and wellbeing, and a range of applied areas.

Year 1

• Understanding Crime
• Criminal Justice: Process, Policy, Practice
• Introduction to developmental and social psychology
• Introduction to Research Design for Psychology
• Introduction to statistics for psychology
• Introduction to biological and cognitive psychology

OPTIONAL MODULES

• Murder
• Psychology and Crime
• Investigating Crime: Criminological Perspectives
• Punishment: Beyond the popular imagination

Year 2

• Crime and Justice in a Global Context
• Research Methods in Criminology
• Developmental and Social Psychology
• Qualitative and Survey Research Design
• Statistics for Psychology
• Biological and Cognitive Psychology

OPTIONAL MODULES

• Policing and the Police
• Mental Health and Offending
• Working for Justice
• Probation, Resettlement, Rehabilitation, and Desistance

Year 3

• Final Year Project (Double) – ISP
• Individual Differences and Conceptual Issues

OPTIONAL MODULES

• State crimes and crimes against humanity
• Youth Justice and Crime
• Dissertation for Criminology – ISP
• Prisons and Imprisonment
• Living with ‘Aliens’: Immigration, Crime, and Social Control
• Health Psychology
• Research Methods in Social and Developmental Psychology for Study Abroad Students
• Faces, Forgetting and Forensic Psychology
• The psychology of deviance
• Psychology in Education
• Making a difference with psychology

Employability:

Our program makes for well-rounded, highly skilled, and marketable graduates with substantive knowledge across two disciplines of particular contemporary significance. Many students find their degree useful for careers in probation, community work, victim support, drug and addiction centers, and other occupations across the public and private sectors. Many also go on to further study.

We also build opportunities for developing employability skills into all our modules, for example by encouraging the use and analysis of primary data, and the presentation of material to a range of different audiences. You will also get opportunities to hear from practitioners and researchers active in the field.

Previous employers

• Addiction
• Brighter Futures
• NHS
• Her Majesty’s Prison Service
• HMRC
• Metropolitan Police Force