Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Study Details: 1 year FT
2 year PT
Criminologists investigate the causes, consequences and reactions to crime – and this course gives you experience of designing, analysing and evaluating criminal justice and crime control strategies.
With an interesting and varied curriculum, this programme has a very strong emphasis on applied knowledge and job market skills. This course is intended to create sophisticated criminological practitioners, able to navigate the realities of criminal justice and crime control, with superior experience, skills and knowledge of how to think, act and reflect criminologically.
This MA has a strong emphasis on communication, research, problem-solving, teamwork, and policy analysis. These skills will be developed through classroom discussion and debate, as well as through practical engagement with external criminal justice and community safety organisations. You’ll be taught by a team of expert criminologists from a variety of specialist backgrounds, including: law, sociology, psychology, history and politics.
The programme is open to applicants with at least 2:2 Bachelor Honours degree (or international equivalent) in any discipline.
Practitioners with relevant and extensive work experience in the criminal justice, crime control and security sectors are encouraged to apply even if they have not been to university previously. Evidence of vocational qualifications, training, written reports and letters of endorsement from line managers submitted in support of an application are encouraged.
In order to ensure our students have a rich learning and student experience, most of our programmes have a mix of domestic and international students. We reserve the right to close applications early to either group, if application volumes suggest that this blend cannot be achieved. In addition, existing undergraduate students at the University of Hull have a guaranteed ‘Fast Track’ route to any postgraduate programme, subject to meeting the entry criteria (excluding Social Work).
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The MA in Criminal Justice and Crime Control aims to produce postgraduates who are versatile communicators, effective problem-solvers, policy analysts, and evidence-led decision makers.
Completing this course opens up a wide range of careers in the following fields: Policing, probation, offender management, prison service, community safety, crime prevention, private and corporate security, civil service, border agency, customs and excise, military policing, security services, legal professions, social housing, offender rehabilitation, youth justice, supporting people, crime analysts, victims and survivors support, local government, and retail and industrial surveillance.
The skills you’ll develop on this programme will be transferable in a number of other careers, including: information technology, management, and administration. Careers in retail and hospitality management, marketing and sales, financial services, research and product development are also successfully pursued by graduates with criminology qualifications.
Core modules
All modules are subject to availability and this list may change at any time.
Global Issues in Criminal Justice and Crime Control
Doing Research in Criminology and Criminal Justice
Trimester 1 optional modules (choose one)
All modules are subject to availability and this list may change at any time.
Contemporary Slavery Studies
Competing and Comparative Justice: Values and Ethics in the Criminal Justice Process
Contemporary Crime: Theories & Practice
Policing, Security and Intelligence
Communication and Engagement with Diverse Communities
Trimester 2 optional modules (choose one)
All modules are subject to availability and this list may change at any time.
Critical Victimology and Contemporary Slavery
Hacking for the Police
Gender, Sexualities and Crime
Global Detention: Custody, Imprisonment and Human Rights
Incarceration Culture in Context: Research Methods and Theory in Interdisciplinary Studies
Compulsory module
All modules are subject to availability and this list may change at any time.
Dissertation
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