这个犯罪学专业为学生提供了一种以批判性的方式研究犯罪和刑事司法的机会，这种方式特别强调了犯罪的社会和文化定义以及对犯罪的反应。重点领域包括刑事司法制度和实践，犯罪学作为一门学科的发展及其各个方面，受害形式和方式，预防犯罪的策略和辩论，少年司法的各个方面，监狱的演变以及不同形式的惩罚，法律执法和监督，暴力，性别与犯罪，犯罪的文化描写和当代犯罪学辩论。
This criminology major offers students the opportunity to study crime and criminal justice in a critical way that particularly stresses social and cultural definitions of criminality and the reactions to it.Areas of focus include criminal justice institutions and practices; the development of criminology as a discipline and its various strands; forms and patterns of victimisation; crime prevention strategies and debates; aspects of juvenile justice; the evolution of prisons and different forms of punishment; law enforcement and surveillance; violence, gender and crime; cultural depictions of crime and contemporary debates in criminology.