BSc (Hons) Applied Criminology (Terrorism & Political Violence)

Program Overview

This criminology program explores crime, criminal justice, and terrorism from diverse perspectives. It prepares students for careers in criminal justice, victim support, and offender treatment, emphasizing critical thinking, research skills, and practical knowledge through collaborations with criminal justice professionals and agencies. The program adheres to industry standards and offers opportunities for research, work experience, and networking.

Program Outline

Degree Overview:

This program:

• Explores crime, criminal justice, and its relationship to society.
• Focuses on terrorism and political violence from diverse perspectives.
• Prepares you for careers related to criminal justice, victim support, and offender treatment.
• Covers the nature, extent, and causes of crime and its management.
• Utilizes key criminological theories to understand crime, offenders, victims, and the criminal justice system.
• Explores how society constructs crime problems and responds to criminal behavior.
• Provides diverse perspectives through expertise of teaching staff and guest lecturers.
• Offers support from criminal justice professionals and agencies through volunteering and networking opportunities.

Objectives:

• Contribute to crime prevention, harm reduction, and victim support.
• Explore key areas of criminology, including terrorism and political violence.
• Analyze and research crime, criminals, victims, and the criminal justice system from different perspectives.
• Develop a critical approach to terrorism and political violence and its investigation.
• Relate research evidence to practice and engage in debates about effectiveness, objectivity, bias, decision making, ethics, and evidence-based policing.

Outline:

Year 1:

• Modules:
• Crime: Representations and Realities
• Crimes, Punishments and Societies
• Crime: Narratives and Explanations
• Introducing Crime, Offences & Justice

Year 2:

• Optional Modules:
• Victimology
• Drugs and Crime
• Youth Crime and Justice
• The History of Crime and Punishment
• Crime, Gender and Sexuality
• Mental Health, Crime and Justice
• Criminological Theories
• Policing and Society
• Private Security and Criminal Justice
• Law and Society
• Criminal Justice Processes

Year 3:

• Dissertation: Conduct your own research project and demonstrate independent work skills.

Overall structure:

• Focus on key areas of criminology.
• Explore terrorism and political violence in depth.
• Develop critical thinking and research skills.
• Gain knowledge and skills relevant to criminal justice careers.
• Benefit from various teaching methods, including lectures, workshops, and tutorials.

Assessment:

• Assessments contribute to a 4000-word quota.
• Guided by written guides, study skills sessions, and staff guidance.
• Varied assessment types to develop skills for criminal justice professions.
• Opportunities for formative feedback before formal assessments.
• Formal assessments include essays, reports, portfolios, oral presentations, written exams, and online exams.
• Emphasis on student-focused and constructive feedback.

Teaching:

• Taught by a team with expertise in policing, mental health, criminal justice, crime, history, migration, drug-related crime, youth justice, and victimology.
• Research expertise integrated into teaching.
• Opportunities for visits, trips, and work experience.

Careers:

• Potential careers in crime, criminal justice, and related fields.
• Typical placements include police, prison service, probation service, youth work, private security, and third-sector organizations.
• Encouraged to participate in volunteering and networking opportunities for career enhancement.

Other:

• The program adheres to the Criminology Benchmark Statements and is guided by the UK Quality Code for Higher Education.
• Collaborations with external criminal justice professionals and organizations for course development and relevance.
• Visits and trips arranged to experience various criminal justice settings.

UK

Full-time: £9,250 Part-time: £4,625

Overseas

Full-time: £15,500 Part-time: N/A Students with an Overseas fee status will be eligible for an International student Scholarship fee discount of £1,500, which will be applied to all Full-time Undergraduate courses with a tuition fee of £15,500.