我们的课程使您对刑事司法政策和刑事犯罪中日益发现的全球模式有很好的了解。我们采用犯罪的社会观点，这种观点将犯罪与权力，资源，权利，（不平等），治理和文化问题联系在一起。例如，这导致我们提出疑问，为什么某些人群比其他人群更有可能成为犯罪者，为什么某些类型的犯罪者比其他人群更有可能被犯罪者逮捕，一些政府如何实施“国家犯罪”，以及为什么？如此之多的人同时害怕犯罪，却深深着迷。
Our course gives you an excellent understanding of the global patterns increasingly found in criminal justice policies and criminal offences. We take a social view of crime, a view which links crime to issues of power, resources, rights, (in)equality, governance and culture. This leads us to ask, for example, why certain groups of people are more likely than others to become offenders, why certain kinds of offenders are more likely than others to be caught, how some governments commit ‘state crime' and why so many people are simultaneously fearful of, yet fascinated by, crime.Crucially, you also have the opportunity to spend either a term or a full academic year studying in the United States, so you can explore and become immersed in American culture.The degree is built to be extremely flexible and student-led, and as you progress through the course you can choose from an enormous range of options from across the humanities and social sciences, including:Contemporary social issues, such as the struggles for racial justiceThe legacies of slavery and the civil rights movementEnvironmental protection of the ‘wilderness' of the Far WestNative American histories and rightsOrganised crime, surveillance and counter-terrorismEnvironmental harmVisual criminologySocial history and crime