BSc (Hons) Criminology and Sociology

Studying Criminology and Sociology will enable you to think independently, critically, and imaginatively about the issues that shape our everyday lives and our futures. The compulsory sociology modules will provide you with a grounding in the key areas of the discipline: inequalities, social theory, and research methods. Our program covers a wide range of topics such as families, health, activism and protest, social media, globalization, and urban life. Likewise, the criminology program introduces you to the theory, practice, and research methods associated with criminology as a discipline, as well as offers the chance to learn in more depth about some of the key crime and criminal justice issues affecting contemporary societies.

Year 1

• Understanding Crime
• Criminal Justice: Process, Policy, Practice
• Social inequalities in the contemporary world
• Classical Sociology

OPTIONAL MODULES

• Murder
• Psychology and Crime
• Investigating Crime: Criminological Perspectives
• Punishment: Beyond the popular imagination
• The Anthropological Imagination
• Audiences: From Moral Panics to Digital Cultures
• Investigating Social Issues

Year 2

• Crime and Justice in a Global Context
• Research Methods in Criminology
• Contemporary Social Theory
• Research Methods

OPTIONAL MODULES

• Policing and the Police
• Mental Health and Offending
• Working for Justice
• Probation, Resettlement, Rehabilitation, and Desistance
• Education Matters: Contemporary Issues and Debates in Education
• Globalization and its Discontents
• The Magic of Modernity
• Social Media and Society
• Social Movements
• Producing Sociological Knowledge

Year 3

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
• The making of professionals: Education, Health and Social Work
• Home: belonging, locality, and material culture
• Moving People: Migration, emotion, identity
• Dissertation – ISP
• Celebrity
• Consuming Nature

Employability:

Many students who study this combination find their degree useful for careers in probation, social work, socio-legal work, the voluntary sector, and policing. Alternatively, you might seek to develop a career in the creative industries, social care, the health sector, advertising and marketing, the charity sector, youth services, and local government. Some of our graduates choose to pursue further academic study.

Previous employers

• Addiction
• Brighter Futures
• NHS
• Her Majesty’s Prison Service
• HMRC
• Metropolitan Police Force
• Police Now
• Probation Office
• Local Government
• Bright Horizons