BSc (Hons) Criminology modules
Drugs and Society
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.
This module examines the changing status of drugs (past and present) and the various ways that drug use is considered problematic for individuals and societies. You will examines the ways that successive drug policies have attempted to control and regulate intoxication in society by different health and crime prevention strategies. This module draws on a range of current local, national and international research into social aspects of drug use.