BSc (Hons) Criminology and Sociology modules
Social Policies and Social Problems
Year 1 core modules
- Crime, Justice and Society
- Introduction to Social Theory 1
- Social Policies and Social Problems
- Study Skills for Sociologists
Year 2 core modules
and one optional module
- American Criminal Justice
- Families, Friendships and Contemporary Intimacies
- Managing Young People's Behaviour in Mainstream Education
- Policing and Social Control
- Safeguarding Children
- Sexual Violence, Sexual Crime
- Volunteering
- Women, Crime and the Criminal Justice System
- Youth and Childhood Identities
- Youth Cultures and Transitions
Final-year core modules
- Contemporary Issues in Social Theory
- Philosophies of Punishment
- Research Project
and one optional module
- 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 brings a multidisciplinary approach to the transformation of governance seen in the UK over the last 30 years. Its aim initially is to contextualise these changes, with an exploration of events from the fall of the Berlin Wall, through to 9/11 and the present decade. The module then considers the effect of these global changes on changing forms of UK governance and policy, from Thatcherism through to New Labour. In the second half of the module you begin to consider how these macro and national-level changes have affected the criminal justice system, with debates around antisocial behaviour and the control of youth. We also look at ways in which waves of marketisation and managerialism have affected criminal justice agencies. Finally, the module focuses on the transformation of social policy, looking at the ‘inclusion’ agenda, pro-work policies, the learning society and multiculturalism.