BSc (Hons) Criminology modules
Criminological Theory
Other modules on this course
Year 1 core modules
- Crime, Culture and Representation
- Crime, Justice and Society
- Introduction to Social Theory 1
- Study Skills for Criminologists
Year 2 core modules
- Criminal Justice
- Criminological Theory
- Social Research Methods
- Victims, Rights and Restorative Justice
and one optional module
- American Criminal Justice
- Families, Friendships and Contemporary Intimacies
- Policing and Social Control
- Sexual Violence, Sexual Crime
- Volunteering
- Women, Crime and the Criminal Justice System
- Youth Cultures and Transitions
Final-year core modules
- Explaining Punishment
- Philosophies of Punishment
- Research Project
and two optional modules
- Crime and Consumer Culture
- Drugs and Society
- Family Law
- Football, Culture and Society
- Independent Studies in the Social Sciences
- International Law
- Medical Law
- Mentoring
- Migration, Development and the Politics of Globalisation
- Race, Crime and Social Exclusion
- Responses to Special Educational Needs
- Terrorism: Criminological Perspectives
- Understanding Domestic and Sexual Violence
- Youth, Crime and Justice
Modules offered may vary.
Everyday images and knowledge about the causes and nature of crime and criminality rely on popular cultural and media representations, official and political reactions to the ‘crime problem.’ In this module you will critically explore attempts to debate these propositions, question their reliability and how they generate unproblematic notions of normalcy and deviance. You will explore the dilemma of freedom versus control, in which understandings and responses to order, criminality and crime indicate the nature and forms of contemporary society and modernity.