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Overview
This BSc (Hons) Criminology and Forensic Psychology degree looks at why people commit crime and how understanding this behaviour 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.
On 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 behaviours relevant to everyday functioning and experiences.
- Complete a final year dissertation, focuses on a topic that you choose.
Accreditation
The course meets the accreditation criteria of the British Psychological Society (BPS) so you will be eligible for a Graduate Basis Chartered Membership of the BPS once you complete your studies.
Teaching and Assessment
How you will learn
You will build your subject knowledge and practical experience through lectures, workshops and tutorials in small groups. These sessions will encourage theoretical and critical inquiry, debate, and practice research skills.
You will study core and optional teaching modules, and develop skills central to professional practice and psychological research.
Contact Time
Each module you study has three hours of contact time per week. You will study four modules per semesters, so you can expect 12 contact hours per week. This time includes lectures, seminars and workshops.
Assessments
You will be assessed through a range of assignments including scientific reports, essays, group and individual presentations, poster design, multiple choice papers, short answer papers, research participation and essay exams.
The Course
What you will study
You will study a selection of core and optional modules in each year. Each module is worth a number of credits and is delivered differently depending on its content and focus of study.
This list is indicative and subject to change.
Select a year
Introduction to Criminology and Forensic Psychology
In this module you will consider the origins of, meaning and perspectives on crime. You will explore crime statistics and crime data and discuss crime in several contexts such as gender, youth, race, penology and cybercrime. You will be assessed through an assignment and a group presentation.
Work Placements
Gain practical experience
You will have the opportunity to complete a range of work placements throughout your degree.
Study Abroad
We support students who wish to broaden their academic and cultural experience by choosing to study abroad for one semester as part of their degree studies. This is an exciting chance for students who wish to widen their horizons and immerse themselves in a different culture and encounter how the discipline of Psychology is viewed and taught at universities in Europe or North America. For example, under Erasmus agreements, students might study for a semester at either Maastricht or Radboud universities in the Netherlands, where Psychology classes are delivered through the English language.
Careers
Where you could go after your studies
This degree prepares you for a career in criminology and psychology and you will graduate with graduate basis for a chartership with the British Psychological Society.
This degree provides a foundation for you to progress into specialist areas of psychology and subsequent status as a Chartered Psychologist, or you could continue your studies with a BPS accredited Master’s degree.
You will also graduate with transferable knowledge and practical, analytical and technical skills that are highly marketable across a range of industries.
This BSc (Hons) Criminology and Forensic Psychology degree could lead to a career in:
- Police work
- Probation service
- Victim or offender support
- Teaching
- Social welfare
- IT or computing
- Data analysis
- Human resources
- Market, government or social research
- Civil service
Forensic Criminologists and Forensic Psychologists
This degree could prepare you for a career as a Forensic Criminologist or a Forensic Psychologist. These roles have a lot of overlap, but are different.
A criminologist will focus on societal or sociological factors that underpin criminal behaviours, particularly the factors that could lead people to committing crimes. They will explore the impact of crime on victims and work with victims to help them cope and return to normalcy. They will also work with criminal justice systems professionals on subjects including implementing policy and procedural changes to benefit criminals and victims of crime.
Psychologists will focus more on developing, testing and implementing treatment programmes for criminals to reduce reconvictions. They also examine the techniques they can use to to develop, pilot and implement treatment programmes to modify offending behaviours. Forensic psychologists can give evidence in court and undertake statistical analyses to look at offender and prisoner profiling.
Both roles can both work in the prison service, rehabilitation units, secure hospitals, courts, and in social services.
To become a Forensic Criminologist or Psychologist, you will need to register with the BPS. This degree offers you the graduate basis for chartership with the British Psychological Society and you would go on to complete a BPS accredited MSc Forensic Psychology qualification to prepare to take the doctoral level Stage 2 BPS qualification.
Further Study
You may choose to continue your studies at postgraduate level.
