MSc Criminology - Full-time

  • DeadlineStudy Details: MSc 1 year full-time

Masters Degree Description

Enhance your criminal justice knowledge and develop your criminological imagination. You’ll focus on global contemporary crime and justice-related challenges.

This is a master’s degree with a strong global focus. You’ll critically analyse some of the biggest crime, deviance and criminal justice issues affecting society right now. By doing this, you’ll gain a deeper understanding of the challenges faced by policymakers and law enforcement organisations, and the mechanisms that prevent and manage these.

Throughout the course, you’ll learn to enhance your research skills. This will allow you to assess topical issues and develop convincing arguments for change.

Entry Requirements

You should have a bachelor's honours degree or international equivalent, typically a 2:1 or above.

To apply for this course, you should have an undergraduate degree in a social science, humanities or arts discipline.

We may make an offer based on a lower grade if you can provide evidence of your suitability for the degree.

If your first language is not English but within the last 2 years you completed your degree in the UK you may be exempt form our English language requirements.

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Fees

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Student Destinations

This course will prepare you for a variety of roles with organisations in the following areas:

  • prison and probation services
  • victim support
  • offender management
  • rehabilitation
  • drug taking and drug policy reform
  • young offenders and youth justice reform

Module Details

Semester 1

You’ll choose one optional unit

Compulsory units

  • Contemporary criminological theory
  • Doing criminological research

Optional units

  • Independent research essay
  • Introduction to criminal law
  • State crime, rights and global justice

Semester 2

You’ll choose one optional unit

Compulsory units

  • Core Issues in crime and criminal justice
  • Criminological ethnography

Optional units

  • Homicide and the human condition
  • Independent research essay
  • The architecture of criminal justice

Summer

Compulsory units

  • Criminology dissertation

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