The modules listed below are for the academic year 2023/24 and represent the course modules at this time. Modules and module details (including, but not limited to, location and time) are subject to change over time.
Year 1 modules include:
Becoming a Criminologist (core, 15 credits)
Child Development and Behaviour (core, 15 credits)
Cognition and Behaviour (core, 15 credits)
Issues in the Criminal Justice System (core, 15 credits)
Personality (core, 15 credits)
The Criminal Justice Framework (core, 15 credits)
The Development of Criminological Thought (core, 15 credits)
Traditional Criminological Theories and Concepts (core, 15 credits)
Year 2 modules include:
Analysing Crime Narratives (core, 15 credits)
Analysing Crime Statistics (core, 15 credits)
Becoming a Criminal Justice Professional (core, 15 credits)
Individual differences (core, 15 credits)
Cognitive and biological explanations of behaviour (option, 15 credits)
Crime Prevention and Environmental Design (option, 15 credits)
Crime in Context (option, 15 credits)
Crime, Media and Technology (option, 15 credits)
Crimes of the Powerful (option, 15 credits)
Criminological Research in Context (option, 15 credits)
Criminology Today (option, 15 credits)
Cybercrime and Surveillance (option, 15 credits)
Dark Destinations - Crime and Tourism (option, 15 credits)
Development across the lifespan (option, 15 credits)
Drugs and Drug Policy (option, 15 credits)
Perspectives on Policing (option, 15 credits)
Psychological interventions: From problems to solutions (option, 15 credits)
Social and cultural explanations of behaviour (option, 15 credits)
Working with Offenders (option, 15 credits)
Youth, Crime and Violence (option, 15 credits)
Year 3 modules include:
Clinical Psychology (core, 15 credits)
Cognition and Emotion (core, 15 credits)
Criminology Project (core, 30 credits)
'The Deviant Other' - media representations of crime (option, 15 credits)
Counseling Psychology (option, 15 credits)
Criminology Work-Based Learning (option, 15 credits)
Criminology of Pleasure (option, 15 credits)
Cyberpsychology (option, 15 credits)
Environmental Justice (option, 15 credits)
Forensic Psychology (option, 15 credits)
Gender and Crime (option, 15 credits)
Gender and sexuality (option, 15 credits)
Global Crime and Disorder (option, 15 credits)
Health Psychology (option, 15 credits)
Migration, Borders and Control (option, 15 credits)
Organised Crime (option, 15 credits)
Policing Strategies and Investigations (option, 15 credits)
Positive psychology (option, 15 credits)
Punishment and Prison (option, 15 credits)
Serious and Serial Offenders (option, 15 credits)
Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism (option, 15 credits)
Victims and Crime (option, 15 credits)
Work Psychology (option, 15 credits)
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