The four-year degree programme allows you to commence your studies with an initial foundation year. The Foundation Year is for you if: You do not have the right qualifications for a full degree; You feel you are not yet ready for degree-level study; You are returning to study and feel you need some help to get up to speed with the demands of learning before embarking on a degree. Undertaking a four-year pathway allows you to undertake a Foundation Year where you will gain key academic skills before entering full undergraduate study. Opting for a Foundation Year will offer you the opportunity to build your self-confidence before progressing to mainstream undergraduate study. Studying a Foundation Year as part of a four-year undergraduate degree offers you the opportunity to build your academic skills over a longer period of time.
This course explores the answers to these questions, examining criminal behaviour from a range of legal, social, policing, and social justice viewpoints. You will examine criminal behaviour from a range of viewpoints: legal, social, policing and social justice. You will work with a range of theories and methodologies used to understand and respond to criminal behaviour, as well as gaining an understanding of the causes and consequences of crime, looking at serious and violent crime in particular. And you'll have the chance to look at different types of criminal groups, such as football hooligans and crime gangs, as well as different social perceptions of crime.
You will complete two professional work placements, which will give you the chance to graduate with up to three months' professional work experience without having to take a sandwich year out. You will graduate with a solid grounding in law and criminology, which will prepare you for a range of careers in youth justice, the Criminal Justice System, and local government. You will also have the chance to develop a set of transferable skills that would prepare you for the further study you need to become a barrister's clerk, advice worker, civil service administrator, journalist, or immigration adviser.
