• The method of study stresses the legal, social, and cultural definitions of criminality and the reactions to these.
  • Areas of focus include criminal justice institutions and practices the development of criminology as a discipline forms and patterns of victimization crime prevention strategies and debates aspects of juvenile justice offending, prisons and different forms of punishment law enforcement and surveillance violence, gender, and crime restorative and international criminal justice cultural depictions of crime and contemporary debates in criminology.
  • The degree will equip students with the specialist skills and knowledge that a new graduate needs on entering the professional workforce or on proceeding to advanced university study.