Why do people commit crime and how do we deal with criminality? Get under the skin of the criminal justice system and learn about rehabilitation inside prison walls as you develop your understanding of how to challenge and change the system. As one of the first universities to offer criminology, Plymouth has stayed at the cutting edge and goes far beyond the theoretical. Immerse yourself in live-action and virtual reality crime scenes and tackle face-to-face suspect interviews with professional actors. Experience our pioneering module with HMP Exeter, where students learn about rehabilitation inside prison walls. Study and tackle a wide range of social harms while working with local NGOs and communities. Each year students work with the Devon & Cornwall Police to create a real campaign to tackle issues impacting the student community, like online scams. Learn from our supportive academics, who have extensive experience working in the criminal justice system. Take advantage of our dedicated placements officer who will help you secure work experience and placements. Benefit from our strong links with local organisations like Landworks, who rehabilitate offenders, and Victim Support. Whether it’s probation, policing and security, youth justice, community safety or victim services, you’ll develop critical analytical and practical skills that could be put to use as a decision-maker, policy developer or in assisting in the treatment of offenders. At Plymouth, your degree really is what you make it. From your second year, you can choose to add in modules from across the School of Society & Culture’s 17 disciplines, broadening your perspective with modules from subjects like Law or Politics or studying community music to understand the role it can play in the rehabilitation of offenders. What our students think: “I love how current the topics are and how the lecturers teach us to be critical of the world around us. The staff are also amazingly supportive and approachable creating a really fun learning environment.” Isobel Thomas, Criminology.

In your first year you’ll explore various criminological perspectives examining theories on the causes of crime and deviance. You will develop an understanding of the criminal justice process in England and Wales, and examine crime in the context of economic, political and social frameworks. You’ll look at policy and practice to develop your knowledge and deepen your understanding of the criminal justice processes, gaining a grounding in criminal justice research. You’ll explore how key concepts and theories shed light on topics including poverty and social exclusion, community, media, education, globalisation, and consumer culture and their relationship to crime, deviance and criminal justice. In your second year you’ll advance your awareness of criminological theory to enhance your analytical skills to understand contemporary and global issues connected to harm, crime, justice and the social world. You’ll also extend your critical reasoning skills as you examine processes of social change and explore consumer culture, ethnicity, globalisation, politics and the State, within a historical and contemporary perspective. Your training in research methods will provide you with an insight into research preparing you early for your final year dissertation project. You will also have the opportunity to apply for place on the 'Inside Knowledge' module that partners students with learners at Exeter prison in a rewarding environment of collaborative learning. In your final year, you’ll design and implement your own research project to produce your dissertation, working independently with the support of a member of the academic team. You will also study modules that reflect new, emerging trends in criminology that utilise current local, national and world issues. This includes green criminology, leisure and deviancy, violence and harm, justice in practice, social change and global issues such as state crime, war and terrorism.

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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.

Course code: L614

Institution code: P60

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The following entry points are available for this course:

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Year 3

Please contact the institution at admissions@plymouth.ac.uk or 01752 585858.

GCSE Maths and English at Grade C/ 4 or above are required for this course. Policing and Security Management pathway Ready to make a difference? The Policing and Security Management pathway is for those interested in a policing-related career and the academic study of policing and security management.

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Test	Grade	AdditionalDetails
IELTS (Academic)	6.0	With 5.5 in all elements.

Full details of English Language requirements can be found on our website.

English Language Requirements

https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/international/how-to-apply/english-language-requirements

Student satisfaction : 55%

Employment after 15 months (Most common jobs): 74%

Go onto work and study: 89%

For all information about tuition fees, please visit our fees and funding pages at www.plymouth.ac.uk/study/fees * Fees are correct at the time of publication and may be subject to change.

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