Combine Criminology and Sociology to improve your understanding of some of the most pressing issues today. Study crime and social issues both in and outside the lecture room, and gain an enhanced understanding of current debates. You’ll graduate with skills for employment in areas as diverse as policing, probation, youth offending and government.
This course will take you on a journey through the topical crime and social issues of the day, the criminal justice responses to them and their portrayal in the media. Using real-life case studies, academic research and interactive learning sessions, you’ll gain a deep understanding of critical debates in both subjects. You’ll also have the opportunity to develop your own specific research interests in your final year dissertation.
Over three years, you’ll study issues such as the media, its moral panics and promotion of fear; sex, violence and the profiling of such offenders; deviant behaviour; youth offending; war and terror and genocide. Our optional modules will also allow you to explore issues from corporate crime to human rights, and sexual violence to burglary.
But you’ll go beyond the lecture theatre, too. With visits to courts and prisons, you’ll examine the trial process and methods of rehabilitation, punishment and retribution (historical and modern), deviance, race and gender. Every year you’ll have the chance to travel abroad on one of our international field trips and examine crime and crime control in different geographical and cultural contexts. Our previous trips have included visits to Amsterdam, Krakow, Estonia and Spain.
Working alongside experienced, research-active academics, you’ll develop your research skills, and get used to speaking in public at our conferences and research seminars.
Course Details - Modules
Year one, core modules
Crime News and Criminology
Criminal Justice in England and Wales
The Sociological Imagination
The Sociology of Globalisation
Year one, optional modules
Political Ideologies and Social Controversies
Media and Crime
Year two, core modules
Trials and Errors: Justice in Court
Contemporary Issues in Prisons and Penology
Violent Crime
Year two, optional modules
Social Divisions
Knowledge and Belief
Cultures of War
Policing and Crime Control
Social Theory
Contemporary Work and Organisational Life
Theories of Deviance, Crime and Social Control
Sociology of Education
Learning from Work Experience (incorporates work placements)
Crime and Place: Geographic Criminology and Crime mapping
Project Preparation
Year three, core modules
Major Project
Criminology in Policy and Practice
Race, Racism and Cultural Identity
Year three, optional modules
Invisible Crimes
Sex, Sex Offending and Society
Sexuality and Social Control
Sport, Globalisation and International politics
Sociology of Popular Culture
Feminist Theory and Practice
Comparative Criminal Justice
Youth Justice Controversies
Investigative Psychology
Preparing for Work
Concepts of Good and Evil
Nature and Society
Optional modules available all years
Anglia Language Programme
Course Details – Assessment Method
For a full breakdown of module options and credits, please view the module structure.
We use a variety of assessment methods, allowing you to develop important transferable skills. You’ll show your progress through a mixture of case studies, presentations, essays, patchwork texts (short pieces of writing, or ‘patches’, built up week-by-week), portfolios, poster presentations, data analysis exercises, exams and group projects, as well as an individual Major Project.
We know how important helpful feedback is and embed opportunities for formative feedback into our modules so you can make the best progress possible.
Course Details – Professional Bodies
Professional Bodies are not listed for this Course.
How to Apply
26 January This is the deadline for applications to be completed and sent for this course. If the university or college still has places available you can apply after this date, but your application is not guaranteed to be considered.
Application Codes
Course code:
L390
Institution code:
A60
Campus Name:
Cambridge Campus
Campus code:
Points of Entry
The following entry points are available for this course:
Year 1
Entry Requirements for Advanced Entry (Year 2 and Beyond)
Entry Requirements for Advanced Entry are not listed for this Course.
International applicants
Standard Qualification Requirements
96 UCAS Tariff Points from a minimum of 2 A levels (or equivalent).
UCAS Tariff points from a minimum of 2 A Levels (or equivalent).
UCAS Tariff Points accepted.
2020 Entry requirements are under review for the next cycle and have been published using the current cycle information. Please check back when apply opens for the exact requirements.
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