Criminology courses and options

Professor Peter Squires & Dr. Hannah Thurston

• Law and Criminology BA(Hons) • Criminology BA(Hons) (Single Subject)• Criminology and Sociology BA(Hons) • Criminology and Social Policy BA(Hons) • Applied Psychology & Criminology BA(Hons) • Substance Misuse Interventions & Criminology

BA(Hons)

Criminology courses available

Level One: Welcome to Criminology -

Criminology In ActionFrom Crime Scene to Court RoomAn examination of the jobs available within the criminal justice process:Policing Courts and the trial Substance misuseProbation Prison officers/governors Working with victims

Level One:

Explaining Crime and CriminalsAn exploration into the ways in which crime is explained and accounted forand applying these accounts to particular offenders and particular crimes.

Mods and rockers

The battle of Brighton

The Great Train Robbery 1963

Explaining CriminalityManchester Shooting: September 2012

Level One:

Penal Policy and Offender ManagementExploring the work of the criminal justice system – post-sentence: including Prison, the prison service and penal policy, rehabilitation and offender management, probation and punishment in the community, services for victims

Level One:

Criminological TheoryAccounting for the range of ways in which crime has been explained, including • Classical theories emphasising choice and responsibility,• Scientific theories addressing biological, psychological & social causation • Contemporary theories – labelling theory, critical realism, and cultural • theory

Level Two: [1]

Criminology & Crime ControlLinking crime theory with the historical effort to design the means of preventing or deterring it: If social deprivation is an underlying factor how well has social progress curbed criminogenic influences?Does surveillance work? can we “design crime out?”If the criminal is a ‘rational actor’ how can we make crime the ‘irrational choice’?

30 year UK crime trend

A thirty year low in crime

Level Two: [2]

Critical Perspectives on Criminal Justice

Contemporary criminology has become increasingly influenced by sociological theories focussing upon class, gender, race and culture. In turn these have generated critical theories of criminalisation, ‘punitiveness’ and race and gender violence.

Black hands, ? White bars

Level Three: [1]

Cross-Cultural Criminology

Ideas about crime and justice can differ greatly from society to society – from societies where the death penalty is still practiced, to debates about carrying a gun for self-defence. Similarly, some cultures do not have a notion of domestic violence or they take quite different approaches to drugs or alcohol.

Florida Halts Executions After Botched One Lasted 34 Minutes

Level Three: [2]

Global Issues: Crime, Power & Harm

Ideas about crime and justice can differ greatly from society to society – from societies where the death penalty is still practiced, to debates about carrying a Gun for self-defence. Similarly, some cultures do not have a notion of domestic violence or they take quite different approaches to drugs or alcohol.

Level Three: [3]

Contemporary Issues in Criminal Justice

Optional themes based upon key issues and research: potential topics include: Prison & Prisoners, US Death Penalty & PunishmentPolicing & Society, Youth Justice,Domestic violence, Offender Management,

Level Three: [4]

Contemporary Topics in Crime & SocietyOptional themes based upon key issues and research: potential topics include: Riots & Protest; Terrorism and war; Gangs;Crime Media Culture; Environmental Crimes; Sex OffendersVictims & Victimology; Powerful offenders,

Cross Cultural Criminology: The Death Penalty

Criminological Research in the School of Applied Social Science

• Anti-social behaviour enforcement

• Services for victims of domestic violence

• Policing Political Protest• Police Interviewing• Community Safety on

Housing Estates• Brighton’s Policing Priorities• Prison Health Audit• Pupil Misbehaviour in

Schools

• Evaluating the effectiveness of CCTV

• Policing, communities and Youthful Disorder

• Arrest Diversion Project• Community Fire Safety• Homelessness, Begging and

Street Drinking• Young People and Vehicle-

taking• Neighbourhood Wardens• Provision of Drug and Alcohol

Services

Criminology Research Projects in the School of Applied Social Sciences

Research & Practice Opportunities and Experiences for students

• Valuable research interviewing experiences on School Projects (previous slide)

• Year 2: Community Placement• Sussex Police : Special Constables, Analyst Support• Victim support (and others) volunteering• Sussex Pathways (HMP Lewes: young offender mentoring project);

mentoring qualification and experience

• Student Exchange scheme

Criminology

Film ClubNEXT FEATURE

Mayfield 129Tuesday Oct. 4th 6pm

COPLAND

You don’t have to be a criminologist to come to the Criminology Film Club...