BSc (Hons) - Criminology with Applied Psychology (With integrated foundation year)

Year one

• Essential University Skills One
  Develop the academic and professional skills required for effective learning and successful progression through your chosen course.
• Essential University Skills Two
  Further develop the skills acquired in Essential University Skills 1.
• Contemporary Issues and the Media
  Explore a range of contemporary issues through the lens of the media that relates to your subject area.
• Families, Communities and the Criminal Justice System
  Gain an understanding into the psychological and societal risk factors and pre-cursors to criminality.
• Professional Practice in the Community
  Develop your awareness of community groups and activities to help your understanding of society.
• Introduction to Policing, Criminology and Law
  Gain a basic understanding of the English and Welsh Legal and Criminal Justice system, and Criminology as a discipline.

Year two

• Crime and Deviance
  An introduction to the concept of crime and deviance in both its historical and contemporary context.
• Criminal Justice System
  An introduction to the structure of the Criminal Justice System of England and Wales.
• Becoming a Criminologist
  An introduction to the wide range of professions that studying Criminology and associated disciplines can lead to.
• Introduction to Psychological Research Methods
  An introduction to the nature of psychological enquiry and research skills.
• Psychology in Action
  An introduction to a range of theories and models from developmental, cognitive and biological psychology and to apply these to a range of human behaviours and contexts.
• Introduction to Data Analysis
  An introduction to the processes involved in the analysis and interpretation of quantitative and qualitative data.

Year three

• Explaining Crime
  Explore how society decides what is and is not ‘criminal’. Definitions of ‘criminal’ and ‘criminality’, taking into account social contexts of crime such as youth, race and ethnicity will be discussed.
• Bringing Offenders to Justice
  Examine, analyse and evaluate policy, procedures and practices involved in bringing offenders to justice.
• Prison and Punishment
  Consider the nature and development of penal institutions, the penal regimes within late-modern societies, and the role of rehabilitation.
• Research Methods and Statistics
  An introduction to statistical techniques that deal with more than one independent variable at two or more levels, including within, between and mixed participant designs.
• Development, Brain and Cognition
  Explore the potential impact on human development and behaviour of a range of factors.
• Social and Community Psychology
  Learn to apply theories of social psychology to understanding the experiences and behaviours of people within their community.

Year four

• New Challenges in Criminology
  Consider crime and social harm beyond national borders, exploring innovative ways to consider crime, harm and victimisation.
• Inequalities in the Criminal Justice System
  Critically examine current debates and controversies in society concerning marginalisation, social exclusion and discrimination and their relationship to the criminal justice system.
• Critical Psychology
  Critically debate the ideological basis of psychological knowledge, methods and applications.
• Individual Differences: Abilities, Personalities and Measuring Differences
  An introduction to the nature of individual differences in human behaviour across a wide spectrum of human development and the use of Psychological testing to assess difference.
• Dissertation
  Pursue an investigation on a topic of interest in criminology.