• This Masters course allows students to explore many of the rich and varied components of comparative criminology through the focusing in turn on aspects of contemporary justice, social harms, violence, oppression, the penal system and its reform, transnational policing, and past and current controversies in the criminal justice system.
  • Students will study these themes in-depth under the care of tutors who have a keen interest in and expert knowledge of these fields.
  • As the culmination of the course, students will undertake a piece of independent research in the form of a 15,000-word dissertation on a topic based on one or more of the taught components of the course.
  • Guidance in this undertaking will come from their appointed dissertation supervisor but also from the Research Methods core module, which will be studied prior to them commencing their research.