Criminology with Psychology, BA (Hons)

About the courseCrime, its manifestations, causes and consequences are a concern worldwide. There’s a global need for real-world understanding of crime, criminals and punishment.On this course, you’ll explore crime and deviance from an interdisciplinary perspective, combining criminological and psychological perspectives. You’ll study:

• the wider social and structural issues associated with crime

• the ‘inner’ psychological workings of people.

In your final-year project, you’ll learn to formulate criminological and/or psychological questions, plan how to answer them and conduct your own research.Our research underpins our teaching. You’ll learn from faculty actively involved in research into areas including:

• (violent) extremism, online extremism/terrorism and counter-terrorism policy

• hate crime policy, gender/disability and victimisation

• women who kill, gender and crime, race and crime

• capital punishment, cultural and historical criminology.

As a graduate, you’ll have critical thinking, research methods (for example, interviews and document analysis) and quantitative methods (for example, large survey design) skills for a wide range of careers.