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Study Details: 1 year
The International Criminology MA will allow you to explore key challenges in criminology and criminal justice internationally. It's designed for those who have studied criminology previously, as well as those who come from law or other social science and humanities perspectives, and criminal justice practitioners.
Our research-led teaching draws from the research expertise of the many expert and internationally known criminology and criminal justice staff at the University of Sheffield.
This course is one of the very few that uses comparative and international perspectives to explore the key issues in criminology today.
Minimum 2:1 undergraduate honours degree in a relevant subject.
Core modules:
The Research Process
Responding to Crime in Europe
The Cultures of Criminology
Issues in Comparative Penology
Dissertation (International Criminology)
Optional modules - examples include:
Introduction to Quantitative Research
Introduction to Qualitative Research
Crime and Globalisation
Policing and Society
Media, culture, crime and punishment
Global Terrorism and Counterterrorism
Criminological Research in Policy and Practice
Gender and Violence
International Criminal Law
Criminality, Victimhood and War
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