Criminology and Policing

Learn from an experienced team with extensive criminal justice experience and equip yourself for a career analysing and responding to crime.

Skills

On our BSc Criminology and Policing, our priority is ensuring that you graduate with a professional skillset.

This incorporates;

• An excellent grasp of indispensable skills in criminology and the social sciences, and the skills required to challenge current key ethical, political and moral questions about crime, justice and policing.
• Real-world engagement. Through connections with criminal justice agencies, you could study within a prison in the module ‘Prisons and Penal Policy’ alongside serving prisoners while engaging with community agencies, prisons and the police service.

These three strands will ensure that you are ready for working in many different areas that shape society. You could secure work in the prison and probation services, the police, Home Office or Ministry of Justice.

Learning

You will be taught by leading scholars in a Faculty driven by innovative research.

Our team has extensive criminal justice experience, and what you will be taught is directly informed by research and consultancy work acting as advisors to the Government, Home Office, Metropolitan Police and Crown Prosecution Service.

This degree will focus on developing you as a professional, equipping you with the skills and qualities you need for a career in the field of criminology.

You will first be introduced to the key perspectives in criminology and supported to question and debate challenges within the criminal justice system through shared modules with our BSc Criminology and Criminal Justice course.

As you progress, you will develop your ability to apply your knowledge through a range of authentic assessments – which could include digital campaigns and community engagement projects.

Career

Studying criminology opens the door to working in many different areas that shape society.

You could secure work in:

• The prison and probation services
• The police
• Home Office
• Ministry of Justice
• The legal profession

Equally, many criminology graduates work in the charity sector or for campaigning organisations focusing on advocacy or criminal justice reform. As a social scientist, your ability to dissect, analyse and research crime, its causes and its potential solutions, will be highly valuable to employers.