Course description
Few problems of government policy are as important as how to reconcile demands for law, order and national security with respect for human rights and civil liberties in an age of global transformation. This MA provides students with advanced level knowledge of contemporary developments in national and international crime, policing, security and crime control. It is an interdisciplinary study programme which means that comparative criminological, political science and sociological perspectives are used to examine key policy issues and debates.
Throughout the programme students will have the opportunity to study topic issues ranging from global crime flows and networks, terrorism, crimes against humanity, war crimes and human trafficking and exploitation through to the transnationalisation of policing and security. On successful completion of the programme students will have the knowledge and skills necessary for employment in the fields of local, national and international policing, security, peacekeeping, crime control, criminal justice and with governmental and non-governmental organisations specialising in human rights, civil liberties and conflict resolution. The MA will also benefit those students wishing to undertake specialist postgraduate research in these fields.
Mode of Study
Students may take the MA programme on a full or part time basis.
Duration
Teaching is delivered in the format of lectures, classes and seminars, taking place in the first and second academic periods (September-April).
Full-time students will normally attend for two or three days a week, and complete their dissertation in the third academic period.
Part-time students will normally attend for one or two days each week for two years. In the first year they will take two core modules in the first academic period and two optional modules in the second academic period. In the second year they will take one core module in the second academic period, one optional module in the second academic period and complete their dissertation.
Modules: MA Criminology
Students complete six taught modules from a combination of three compulsory core and three elective modules. Students also take part in a dissertation workshop and produce a dissertation over the summer period.
Core Modules
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Approaches to Social Research (SGM222)
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Contemporary Criminology (SGM231)
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Crime and Justice (SGM232)
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Sociology Dissertation (SGM111)
Elective Modules (choose three from this list)
* Transnational Policing (SGM119)
* Victimology (SGM240)
* Media, Crime and Culture (SGM235)
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Surveillance Studies: Theories and Concepts (SGM237)
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Surveillance Studies: Processes and Practices (SGM238)
* Globalisation: Challenges and Transformations (SGM101)
* Human Rights: Concepts and Issues (SGM106)
* Media and Human Rights (SGM224)
* Globalising Cities (SGM107)
* International Communications (SGM008)
* Rights, Multiculturalism and Citizenship (SGM109)
* Refugee Rights and Refugee Settlement (SGM117)
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Social Policy Research and Evaluation (SGM216)
* Security and Crime (SGM236)
