该课程是针对广泛的犯罪学和刑事司法问题采取国际比较观点的第一门课程。该课程旨在满足三类潜在学生的需求：那些需要进行专门研究犯罪学和刑事司法的全面研究培训的人，那些对追求犯罪学和刑事司法更高水平的兴趣的人以及刑事司法领域的从业人员。希望将他们的视野从国家层面预科到国际层面。该计划的组成部分包括一个用于社会科学领域定性和定量研究方法培训的通用研究模块（“研究过程”），应用研究犯罪学的专门培训以及一个关于犯罪学的国际案例研究的模块，该模块使学生可以将自己的特殊知识纳入其中。比较犯罪学和刑事司法研究的研究兴趣和研
The course was one of the first to take an internationally comparative perspective across a broad range of criminology and criminal justice issues. It is designed to meet the needs of three groups of potential students: those requiring a thorough research training specialising in criminology and criminal justice, those who are interested in pursuing criminology and criminal justice to an advanced level, and practitioners in the criminal justice field who wish to expand their horizons from national to international levels. The programme components consist of a generic research module (The Research Process) for training in qualitative and quantitative research methods in the Social Sciences, specialised training in Applied Research Criminology and a module on international case studies in Criminology, which allows students to incorporate their particular research interests and areas of enquiry in comparative criminological and criminal justice research. The MA includes a 20,000 word dissertation.<br><br>The course prepares for a wide range of employment including: Law-enforcement agencies: the police, customs, the prison service, Public administration: including crime prevention units, offender management, general administration, international institutions, Political associations, work for members of parliaments, for lobby groups related to the criminal justice system and to issues of social justice broadly conceived, Research institutes, researching criminological and sociological issues and Academic institutions such as universities.