Course summary

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. Upon successful completion of the degree, you’ll be equipped with the skills to progress or begin your career in the criminal justice sector in the UK or further afield. You will study topics such as:

• international criminal justice and law

• contemporary criminological theory

• criminological ethnography

• technological developments in criminal justice

• state crime, human rights, and transitional justice

• violent crime

• a critical understanding of some of the most pressing, urgent criminological issues and challenges in the 21st century

• practical skills in research, analysis and communication, and an understanding of how these can be applied within the fields of criminal justice and practice

• rich experience gained from working with people from a wide range of disciplinary, professional and national backgrounds

• prison and probation services

• victim support

• offender management

• rehabilitation

• drug taking and drug policy reform

• young offenders and youth justice reform