CONTEMPORARY CRIMINOLOGY: THEORY AND PRACTICE (30 credits)
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This module block introduces students to criminological concepts, theories and perspectives, and to contemporary thinking in criminology and governance studies more broadly. This will include sessions that explicate theories or perspectives in criminology, applying them to particular issues and problems pertaining to social disorder, crime, crime control and criminal justice.
CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE (30 credits)
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This module will cover a range of contemporary issues and developments in criminal justice and governance studies that will explicate theories or perspectives in criminology, and governance studies more broadly, by applying them to particular issues and problems pertaining to crime control, governance, regulation and criminal justice.
QUALITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS (15 credits)
This module offers a comprehensive introduction to the principles and practices of qualitative social scientific research. The module engages students in the different approaches, design, methods of investigation associated with generating and analysing qualitative date.
QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS (15 credits)
This module offers a comprehensive introduction to the principles and practices of quantitative research methods, which will engage students in quantitative research design, developing research instruments such as questionnaires, and introduce statistical analysis of quantitative datasets and SPSS software.
ADVANCED TOPICS IN CRIMINOLOGY AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE (30 credits)
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This module allows students to evaluate critically research and advanced scholarship related to current and contemporary developments in crime, criminal justice and governance through different areas of expertise and case studies.
Successful completion of the above taught modules, allows progression to the dissertation module:
DISSERTATION (60 credits)
The dissertation module allows students to undertake a significant piece of their own research under supervision of a research-active member of staff and make use of their theoretical and practical learning on the programme. The dissertation has a target length of 15,000.