Criminology

First year modules

First year of the programme provides an introduction to understanding crimefrom a social, historical and political context. First year modules may include Crime and social life, Introduction to Legal Systems, Criminology: A history and introduction, Criminology: key concepts, studies and issues, Key Issues in Sociology, Introduction to the Psychology of Crime.

Second year modules

Core modules in second year provide a deeper coverage of the range of criminological knowledge. In your second you may study Criminological Thought, Understanding Criminological Fieldwork and Measuring Crime, Research Methodology; Sociology of Crime and Deviance, Criminological thought, Measuring Crime, Understanding Criminological Fieldwork.

Electives may include Crime, Urbanisation and Cities; Coercive Confinement and Social Control in Ireland; Terrorism and Political Violence; Policing Modern Society; Education in Prisons; Anthropology and Social Control; Gender and Crime; Life-course Criminology and Desistance; Penal Policy and Practice; Criminal Law; Criminal Evidence and International Human Rights Law.

Third year modules

In the third year, students have to write a Dissertation on a Criminological on topic of their choice. And elective subjects may include Corporate Crime; Youth Crime; Regulating the Environment; Forensic Psychology; Censorship in Twentieth-Century Ireland; Modern Political Thought; Environmental Ethics and Political Theory; Moral Responsibility; Human Nature and Free Will; Social Theory; Sociology of Development and Globalization: Introduction to Planning and Sustainable Development; Sociology of Media; Sociology of Law; Sociology of Health and Illness; Philosophy of Social Science and Family, Gender, Sexualities.