MA Criminal Justice Studies – (M.A.)

Contents

This course has four compulsory modules. You also take one or two of the optional modules, depending on which module options you choose.

Compulsory modules

Criminal Justice Processes explores the complex and dynamic nature of the criminal justice process and the relationships that can exist between its components. You will investigate the different impact of the criminal justice process on specific social groups and examine the rights, and experiences, of individuals within criminal justice processes.

Criminal Justice Policies, Perspectives and Research will investigate contemporary policy debates and perspectives in criminal justice and crime control. You will study criminal justice policy within the context of broader social changes and political and ideological processes, and consider the ways in which policy debates inform, and are informed by, broader perspectives on criminal justice and the politics of crime control.

Research Methods focuses on the mechanics of the research process: how to formulate research questions, design research strategies and generally go about the process of 'researching.'

Dissertation allows you to tailor your own programme of training and research in consultation with a member of staff drawn from the school's MA/PhD supervisory panel. Recent MA dissertations have covered subjects such as police management, trials of the dead, crimes and church property, prostitutes and pimps, triads, and driving and drugs.

Optional modules

* Policing 1: The Nature of Contemporary Policing
* Policing 2: Police Accountability
* International Criminal Justice
* Forensic Process
* Theories of Crime, Justice and Control
* Advanced Cybercrime: computers and crime in the Information Age
* Family, Law and Society