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University of Essex: Criminology
Institution | University of Essex View institution profile |
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Department | Sociology and Criminology |
Web | essex.ac.uk |
pgadmit@essex.ac.uk | |
Telephone | 01206 872719 |
Study type | Taught |
Summary
How do we understand crime? How can it be prevented? Why should crime be punished, and how should we go about it? Criminologists engage with some of the most pressing issues, decisions and dilemmas facing societies today. On our course you explore the nature of crime, criminal justice and punishment within wider social contexts.
Criminology at Essex builds on strong sociological foundations and reflects the diversity of staff interests, including leading contributors to studies of women, young people and criminal justice, prostitution, homicide, victimisation, visual criminology and media, organised crime and law enforcement, terrorism and surveillance, environmental crime and more. Our courses provide critical, conceptual and theoretical analyses of crimes and harms, from the local to the global.
The course provides you with a strong grounding in the key theories, understandings and issues covered by cutting-edge criminology. You explore a wide range of topics, including:
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The analysis, politics and prevention of crime
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Globalisation and various forms of crime
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Security and the state
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New criminological theory
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Terrorism, counter-terrorism, surveillance and human rights
You also develop the skills needed to make your own contribution to the field, gaining a critical and coherent perspective on empirical research and examining the key assumptions and ideological underpinnings of qualitative and quantitative research.
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Level | RQF Level 7 |
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Entry requirements | Entry requirements for this course can be found on the course finder on the University of Essex website – www.essex.ac.uk |
Location | Colchester Campus University of Essex Wivenhoe Park Colchester CO4 3SQ |
Fees
England | 10000 GBP for Year 1 |
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Northern Ireland | 10000 GBP for Year 1 |
Scotland | 10000 GBP for Year 1 |
Wales | 10000 GBP for Year 1 |
Channel Islands | 10000 GBP for Year 1 |
Republic of Ireland | 10000 GBP for Year 1 |
EU | 21700 GBP for Year 1 |
International | 21700 GBP for Year 1 |
Level | RQF Level 7 |
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Entry requirements | Entry requirements for this course can be found on the course finder on the University of Essex website – www.essex.ac.uk |
Location | Colchester Campus University of Essex Wivenhoe Park Colchester CO4 3SQ |
Fees
England | 10000 GBP for Year 1 |
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Northern Ireland | 10000 GBP for Year 1 |
Scotland | 10000 GBP for Year 1 |
Wales | 10000 GBP for Year 1 |
Channel Islands | 10000 GBP for Year 1 |
Republic of Ireland | 10000 GBP for Year 1 |
EU | 21700 GBP for Year 1 |
International | 21700 GBP for Year 1 |
Level | RQF Level 7 |
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Entry requirements | Entry requirements for this course can be found on the course finder on the University of Essex website – www.essex.ac.uk |
Location | Colchester Campus University of Essex Wivenhoe Park Colchester CO4 3SQ |
Fees
England | 9660 GBP for Year 1 |
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Northern Ireland | 9660 GBP for Year 1 |
Scotland | 9660 GBP for Year 1 |
Wales | 9660 GBP for Year 1 |
Channel Islands | 9660 GBP for Year 1 |
EU | 20700 GBP for Year 1 |
International | 20700 GBP for Year 1 |
Republic of Ireland | 20700 GBP for Year 1 |
Level | RQF Level 7 |
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Entry requirements | Entry requirements for this course can be found on the course finder on the University of Essex website – www.essex.ac.uk |
Location | Colchester Campus University of Essex Wivenhoe Park Colchester CO4 3SQ |
Fees
England | 9660 GBP for Year 1 |
---|---|
Northern Ireland | 9660 GBP for Year 1 |
Scotland | 9660 GBP for Year 1 |
Wales | 9660 GBP for Year 1 |
Channel Islands | 9660 GBP for Year 1 |
EU | 20700 GBP for Year 1 |
International | 20700 GBP for Year 1 |
Republic of Ireland | 20700 GBP for Year 1 |
We Are Essex. Are you? Join the University of Essex, one of the top 30 universities in the UK (Guardian University Guide 2024).
As an Essex postgraduate you’ll have the freedom to challenge, ask the difficult questions and take intellectual risk. You’re taught and supported by world-leading academics in our research-intensive environment that will enable you to make a difference. You’ll be among Nobel Prize-winners, award-winning directors, presidents, astronauts and over 100,000 other alumni who have gone on to shape the world.
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