Course Overview

As a graduate in Criminology, you will have a firm grounding for entry to a range of criminal justice and related careers. Past graduates have gone on to have a career as Drug and Rehabilitation Officers, Prison Officers, Safeguarding Officers, and Hate Crime Caseworkers. While the police, prison, and probation services are the most obvious career paths, the knowledge, awareness, and experience of studying Criminology are valuable in various services. In addition, some graduates have used their degrees as a stepping-stone to pursue more formal legal training.

As well as detailed knowledge about crime and justice, you will also learn skills vital for employment in various careers. For example, you will learn critical thinking, analysis, and synthesis; problem-solving and decision-making; effective written and oral communication; effective use of information technology; numeracy skills; time management; and the ability to work independently in a team. Crime and how to deal with it are amongst the most significant and contentious issues of our time, so we must understand this subject. Criminology studies crime, its causes and effects, and what we do about it. At Liverpool Hope University, you will study how crime is defined and who defines it, why some people commit offenses, and what happens to those who commit crimes if they are caught.

Criminology also studies the impact of the various agencies and organizations that deal with crime: the police, the courts, the probation and prison services, as well as the role of the Ministry of Justice and the Home Office. Studying Criminology lets, you focus on questions such as ‘is criminal behaviour learned or inherited?’ and ‘why are some actions defined as criminal and not others?’; ‘what is the purpose of punishment and to what extent does it deter criminal behaviour?’

General Eligibility

A-Levels BBC

UCAS Tariff Points 112 UCAS Tariff points must come from a minimum of two A Levels (or equivalent). Additional points can be made up from a range of alternative qualifications.

BTEC DMM

Access to HE 112 Tariff Points

IB 28

Irish Leaving Certificate 112 Tariff Points from Higher Level qualifications only.

Welsh Baccalaureate This qualification can only be accepted in conjunction with other relevant qualifications.

Subject Requirements No specific subject requirements

Part Time Work Details

20 hours of work permit weekly for international students.

Language Requirement

• IELTS

  6.0 overall (with reading and writing at 6.0) and no individual score lower than 5.5. We also accept a wide range of International Qualifications.