BSc (Hons) Criminology with Psychology

On this course, you can do an optional work placement year between your 2nd and 3rd years to get valuable experience working in industry.

We’ll help you secure a work placement that fits your situation and ambitions. You’ll get mentoring and support throughout the year.

Placement options in this year include:

• ICJS Study Abroad Year

• Work Placement Year

Core modules in this year include:

• Criminal Justice

• Essential Skills for Criminologists

• Psychology for Criminologists

• Social Psychology

• Understanding Criminology

Core modules in this year include:

• Developmental Psychology

• Psychology and Criminal Justice

• Questioning Criminology

• Researching Criminology

Optional modules in this year include:

• Crimes of the Powerful

• Empire and its Afterlives in Britain, Europe and Africa

• Engaged Citizenship in Humanities and Social Sciences

• Fundamentals of Forensic Investigation

• Gang Crime

• Global Environmental Justice

• Global Security

• Hate Crime

• Intercultural Perspectives on Communication

• Introduction to Teaching

• Marketing and Communication

• Modern Foreign Language (Institution-wide Language Programme)

• Modernity and Globalisation

• Nationalism and Migration: Chaos, Crisis and the Everyday

• News, Discourse and Media

• Penology and Prison

• Policing and Society

• Principles of Economic Crime Investigation

• Professional Experience

• Psychology and Security

• Space, Place and Being

• Transitional Justice and Human Rights

• Underworlds: Crime, Deviance and Punishment in Britain, 1500-1900

• Wildlife Crime: Threats and Response

• Victims of Crime: Key Players in Criminal Justice

• Youth Crime, Youth Justice

Core modules in this year include:

• Abnormal Psychology

• Dissertation / Major Project

• Psychology of Criminal Conduct

Optional modules in this year include:

• Black Criminology, Race and the Criminal Justice System

• Contemporary Terrorism and the Global Response

• Crime and New Technologies: Theory and Practice

• Cyberpsychology

• Dangerous Offenders and Public Protection

• Economic Crime and Fraud Examination

• Forensic Psychology: Investigation

• Gender and Crime

• Green Crime and Environmental Justice

• Information Security Management

• Intelligence Analysis

• Introduction to Teaching

• Miscarriages of Justice

• Money Laundering and Compliance

• Policing: Communities, Intelligence and Information

• Policing: Law, Policy and Practice

• Political Extremism

• Professional Development: Recruiters and Candidates

• Professional Experience

• Treatment and Rehabilitation of Offenders

• True Crime: The Making of a Genre