Course Overview
This BSc (Hons) Criminology and Forensic Psychology degree look at why people commit crime and how understanding this behavior can generate evidence in court and help determine steps for rehabilitation. This course is designed to encourage critical thinking. You will evaluate perspectives on psychology and crime in lectures, workshops, and small-group seminars and complete practical experiments to increase your understanding.
In this course you will:
- Explore topics including criminology, sexual offending, young people and crime, legal frameworks, human rights, diversity and duty of care, mental health and forensic psychology, and developmental psychology.
- Gain laboratory experience.
- Develop your research and analytic skills.
- Learn to support explaining behaviors relevant to everyday functioning and experiences.
- Complete a final year dissertation focusing on a topic that you choose.
Key Facts
- Full-time- 3 years
- Start Date- September
Entry requirements
- UCAS 104-120 tariff points from A levels or combination with AS / EPQ / BTEC/ Cambridge Technical.
- A-Levels- BBB-BCC
- BTEC/Cambridge Technical – DDM-DMM
- GCSEs C/4 or higher in English, mathematics, and a science
- IB- 26- 28 points
- Access to HE Diploma- Pass including 12 science credits at Merit
- IELTS- 6.0 overall with no element lower than 5.5
Careers
This BSc (Hons) Criminology and psychology degree prepare you for a range of careers. You could work in welfare careers like social work or the probation service or in areas such as the prison service, police, or the Home Office. You could work in criminal justice, the legal system, or HM Revenue and Customs. You will develop your research skills during the course so you could work as a researcher in a large company or the Civil Service. Many students also go on to postgraduate studies and become independent researchers.
Careers routes after this degree include:
- Victim or offender support
- Social welfare
- HM Revenue and Customs
- Home Office
- Justice system
- IT or computing
- Data analysis
- Market, government, or social research
- Civil Service
Course Content
Year 1
- Introduction to Criminology and Forensic Psychology
- Diversity and Duty of Care
- Crime and Society
- Everyday Experience and Psychological Methods: Understanding Relationships
- Everyday Experience and Psychological Methods: Analysing Attitudes
- Everyday Experience and Psychological Methods: Usability and Cognition
- Perspectives on Psychology
Year 2
- Mental Health and Forensic Psychology
- Legal Frameworks
- Cognitive Psychology
- Individual Differences
- Developmental Psychology
- Biological Psychology
- Research Methods I: Experimental Designs and Analysis
- Research Methods II: Survey and Qualitative Designs and Analysis
Year 3
- Young People and Crime
- Sexual Offenders – Across the Life Course
- Criminology in Professional Practice
- Project Management Skills (Criminology/Psychology)
- Professional Skills
- Independent Project (Criminology/Psychology)
