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University of Glasgow: Criminology and Criminal Justice

Institution University of Glasgow View institution profile
Department School of Social & Political Sciences View department profile
Web glasgow.ac.uk/socialpolitical
Study type Taught

Summary

Our criminology programme will help you to better understand the harms and conflicts that we criminalise and penalise, the harms and conflicts that criminalisation and penalisation cause, and how we might develop responses which could create fairer and safer societies rather than exacerbating social inequalities.

You will develop analytic and research skills, an interdisciplinary knowledge base, and a critical understanding of the settings in which crime and justice policies are devised and implemented.

You will develop analytic and research skills, an interdisciplinary knowledge base, and a critical understanding of the settings in which crime and justice policies are devised and implemented. * You will be taught by leading scholars from the Scottish Centre for Crime & Justice Research (SCCJR), a centre of excellence for criminology in the UK.

Though we draw on a wide range of disciplines, our approach to criminology at Glasgow is rooted in and informed principally by sociological analyses of crime and punishment. We insist on interrogating the relationships between criminal and social justice and injustice.

In particular, our staff have expertise in:

  • Young people, crime and youth justice (especially youth violence and gangs)
  • Social and legal responses to gender-based violence
  • Criminalisation and punishment of women
  • Inequalities and intersectionality (including in relation to disability)
  • Security studies, including policing and regulation
  • Sentencing and the penal system, particularly imprisonment, parole and probation
  • Desistance from crime, rehabilitation and reintegration
  • Media, culture and representations of crime and punishment
  • Criminological theory including urban criminology, cultural criminology, critical criminology, digital criminology, sensory criminology, punishment and society studies, and feminist perspectives
  • Creative and collaborative approaches to criminological research
  • Illicit markets, including the contemporary global trade in looted cultural objects

You will take two core and four optional courses, as well as submit a dissertation on a subject of your choice.

Core courses

  • CRIMINOLOGICAL THEORY IN CONTEXT
  • RESEARCH DESIGN OR QUALITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS

Optional courses may include

  • CRIME, MEDIA AND POPULAR CULTURE
  • CRIMINOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON SECURITY AND GLOBALISATION
  • GENDER, CRIME AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE
  • PUNISHMENT AND IN/JUSTICE
  • THE GLOBAL CRIMINAL ECONOMY

You will be well-equipped for a wide range of careers in agencies in different sectors seeking to do justice better, including careers in public, private and third sector agencies concerned with social justice and injustice, criminalisation and punishment, and equality.

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The University of Glasgow’s School of Social & Political Sciences  links core social science disciplines to deliver high-quality teaching and cutting-edge research. We offer a wide variety of programmes for those interested in the development and impact of economies and societies globally.

Founded in 1451, the University of Glasgow is the fourth oldest university in the English-speaking world. The University has a history of changing the world and the School of Social & Political Sciences is committed to nurturing the people who make it happen.

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