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MSc Criminology – Part-time

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    MSc 2 years part-time

Course Description

Enhance your criminal justice knowledge and develop your criminological imagination. You’ll focus on global contemporary crime and justice-related challenges.

This is a master’s degree with a strong global focus. You’ll critically analyse some of the biggest crime, deviance and criminal justice issues affecting society right now. By doing this, you’ll gain a deeper understanding of the challenges faced by policymakers and law enforcement organisations, and the mechanisms that prevent and manage these.

Throughout the course, you’ll learn to enhance your research skills. This will allow you to assess topical issues and develop convincing arguments for change.

Entry Requirements

You should have a bachelor’s honours degree or international equivalent, typically a 2:1 or above.

To apply for this course, you should have an undergraduate degree in a social science, humanities or arts discipline.

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Fees

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Student Destinations

This course will prepare you for a variety of roles with organisations in the following areas:

  • prison and probation services
  • victim support
  • offender management
  • rehabilitation
  • drug taking and drug policy reform
  • young offenders and youth justice reform

Module Details

Year 1

Semester 1

Compulsory units

  • Contemporary criminological theory

Semester 2

You’ll choose one optional unit

Compulsory units

  • Core Issues in crime and criminal justice

Optional units

  • Homicide and the human condition
  • Independent research essay
  • The architecture of criminal justice

Year 2

Semester 1

You’ll choose one optional unit

Compulsory units

  • Doing criminological research

Optional units

  • Independent research essay
  • Introduction to criminal law
  • State crime, rights and global justice

Semester 2

Compulsory units

  • Criminological ethnography

Summer

Compulsory units

  • Criminology dissertation

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