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Bachelor of Science (with Honours) - BSc (Hons)
University of Greenwich (Greenwich Campus)
Part Time
Sep 2026
6 Year
Our criminology and criminal psychology degree is aimed at anyone interested in crime, psychology and the criminal justice system.Study topics provide a clear introduction to criminology and criminal psychology. You will cover a range of issues, including offender profiling, stalking, psychopathology, gender, race and discrimination, crime scene investigation, and terrorism.Popular careers for our criminology graduates include policy, research, the police force, social care and welfare. Our graduates have also gone on to work for UK Visas and Immigration and HM Revenue and Customs.This course offers a unique fusion of the most exciting contemporary academic disciplinesIt covers the understanding the nature, causes and reactions to crime, alongside a comprehensive overview criminal psychology.You will explore social and state responses and methods control by integrating theoretical paradigms in the criminology.This does not provide British Psychological Society (BPS) recognition or accreditation. However, graduates this course who are accepted to and then successfully comple.
The aim of this course is to provide a basic grounding in Forensic Criminology. The course includes an introduction into forensic psychology and crime scene investigation. Forensic Criminology as a core course is designed to promote analytical and evaluative skills, as well as encourage the application of material to appropriate case studies. In terms of transferable skills students will, through seminar work, applied approach and problem solving, develop a knowledge and understanding of the subject area, as well as an appreciation of the ethical and complex issues that surround forensic criminology.
The purpose of this course is to equip students with a basic knowledge and understanding of criminological theory and its practical application in the fields of criminology and criminal justice. The course will consider a wide range of different theories of crime, criminality, victimisation and criminalisation.
The main aims of this course are to provide a broad introduction to the discipline of psychology and introduce a range of paradigms in psychology and their historical context as well as help students to develop an understanding of psychological concepts that can be applied to psychology. On successful completion of this course a student will be able to: Discriminate between the different psychological paradigms and research traditions, and understand their historical origins; Describe the key features and functions of the brain and the nervous system; Differentiate between approaches used to assess individual differences in mental ability, cognitive styles and personality; Understand the various processes that underpin cognition, abnormal psychology, development and social interaction of real lives; Demonstrate knowledge of different conditions and classifications within abnormal psychology.
This level four course aims to identify and begin to explore the means by which we understand society and the key social processes that define it and how these can be used to explain deviant behaviour. It introduces the central issues, theories and concepts which are associated with societal processes, structures and divisions and the ways in which these relate to the construction of criminal and deviant behaviour. In doing so it considers a broad range of societal aspects, in particular those deemed ?social problems? and explores their relationship to crime and deviance, such as social exclusion, poverty, family structures, schooling, discrimination and socialisation. Students are therefore encouraged to consider the contention that in order to understand crime they need to first consider the wider social context within which it takes place.
This course is a level 5 core subject for the BA Hons Criminology and BSc Criminology and Criminal Psychology programmes. It explores the project of Criminology by examining three overlapping areas: i. history and theory of crime, ii. responses to crime, iii. contemporary perspectives. As such, Criminology is placed in its historical context before examining how the various contemporary institutions of the Criminal Justice System interact and respond to crime, criminality and punishment. We then unpack the contemporary criminological theories associated with particular case-studies and topic areas.
The aim of this course is to assist students in their understanding of criminological research methodology and to enable them to acquire practical research skills of study design, data collection, data analysis and write-up of results. This course will enable students to acquire the skills required to undertake a desk-based or empirical research project at level 6 and the skills of report writing and data analysis that are increasingly valued by employers.
This module aims: To extend the coverage of psychological theories and concepts; To extend coverage of empirical approaches to psychological investigation; To extend coverage of key ideas and findings emanating from various fields of psychology; To extend opportunities in terms of breadth and depth to apply psychological concepts to a range of criminological and forensic questions.
The course will focus on studies and theories assessing the investigative process in the context of criminal law and will draw on contemporary research predominantly, but not exclusively from a cognitive and a socio-forensic perspective. On successful completion of this course a student will be able to: Critically evaluate research methodologies examining the investigative processes used by the criminal justice system; Critically evaluate recent theoretical arguments and controversies as to the reliability of different types of evidence; Critically demonstrate an awareness of the historical and conceptual impact of psychological research on the criminal justice system; Critically evaluate an understanding of some of the approaches adopted by psychologists and other forensic science professionals working within the context of the criminal justice system.
This course is designed to introduce students to theoretical concepts from forensic psychology, to explain different types of criminal behaviour, the role of forensic psychology practitioners and criminal justice institutions in the rehabilitation and punishment of offenders, and how these processes may vary for certain categories of offender.
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