Full entry requirements

International students can progress directly on to this course from the International Foundation Year in Economics, Business and Social Sciences.

First Year

First year modules are designed to enable you to develop a sound understanding and awareness of the central topics involved in the study of crime. You will attend six core modules. Crime in Focus provides key debates surrounding how we define and measure crime; fear of crime; crime and everyday life; forms of crime and victims of crime. Theories of Crime and Criminality offers theoretical perspectives that help us to understand and explain crime and criminal behaviour; comprehend the wider social and political contexts in which crime occurs and evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of different criminological theories and perspectives. Introduction to Criminal Justice examines the core aspects of the criminal justice system, including the police, the Crown Prosecution Service, the courts, prisons and probation. Social Change, Identity and Behaviour analyses key aspects of contemporary societies, including social behaviour in modern urban contexts, the relationship between self and institutional processes of incarceration, and the role of the mass media. Society in Transformation outlines the distinctiveness of late-modern life in cities, with special reference to issues of education and crime, and social change and associated problems. Research Methods 1 introduces you to the fundamental issues of research design in the social sciences. By the end of your first year you will have a good grasp of the key issues that inform the study of crime and society, and you will have developed the necessary skills needed to see you through your degree programme.

Second and Third Years

Core modules during the second year include: Policing; Prisons, Probation and Punishment; Psychology and Crime; The Sociology of Deviance; and Research Methods 2. You also have the opportunity to take an option module. The third year comprises only one core module, Clinical Criminology, plus the dissertation and three optional modules. Current optional modules available in your second and third year include:

• Advanced Policing
• Crime and the Media
• Crime, Law and Justice
• Crime, Technology and Social Control
• Cultures of Crime
• Drugs, Crime and Society
• Hate Crime
• Terrorism
• Youth Crime and Justice

Contact

BA Course Administrator
0116 252 5712
criminology@le.ac.uk
www.le.ac.uk/criminology/

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