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Criminology BSc(Hons)

single/joint honours

n FACULTY OF ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES


www.kingston.ac.uk/2016criminology

Criminology BSc(Hons)
single/joint honours

Criminology is the study of crime in society.


Criminologists combine the study of society,
politics, law, psychology and culture to understand
offending behaviour and the states response to
prohibited and harmful activity.
By studying criminology you will develop practical
skills in using evidence and theory to tackle
problems in the real world.

Why study criminology at


Kingston University?
The quality of our degree and the
experience we offer is reflected in student
feedback: an overall satisfaction rate of
94 per cent, with 97 per cent of students
saying that staff are good at explaining
things and 88 per cent saying staff are
enthusiastic about the subject.*
Criminology is offered as both a single
honours and joint honours subject at
Kingston, enabling you to combine it with a
range of complementary subjects (see back).
We aim to give you a sound knowledge of
the core concepts of criminology, together
with the freedom to broaden your studies
through optional modules in related topics.
You will have the opportunity to conduct
community-based fieldwork studies.
You can gain first-hand experience of
working with practitioners, advocates or
campaigners.
You can choose to study abroad for a
semester, either at Kingstons partner
universities in the United States, or in
Europe through the Erasmus scheme.
*Source: www.unistats.direct.gov.uk

Teaching, assessment and support

Careers and employability

At Kingston University, we emphasise the


importance of thinking about crime and justice in
the context of contemporary politics, social policy
and culture. You will undertake community-based
fieldwork studies, including some experience
of working with practitioners, advocates or
campaigners.

The skills you will gain from a degree in


criminology are those that will be useful for life.
You will gain the ability to observe the world, to
think about and question the way things are done,
and to propose changes. Kingstons criminology
graduates develop practical skills in using
evidence and theory to tackle problems in the real
world all skills that are applicable to a wide range
of employment within criminal justice and beyond.

We aim to encourage the sharing of research and


learning through the experience of practice with
community-based organisations and activists.
We use a wide range of teaching methods that
are designed to help you learn in a supportive and
friendly environment. In addition to your course
tutors, you will also have an academic adviser to
support you throughout your studies.
Modules are taught over a full academic year,
with feedback on your progress provided in
each module before the final assessment. The
assessments are designed to provide relevant
practice and experience for employment after
graduation, and may include community crime
audits, exhibitions, reports, presentations and
conferences.
Personal tutor scheme
The teaching team is committed to providing the
support you need to transition to university life.
We pride ourselves on our approachability and
readiness to help. The personal tutor scheme,
designed to help you from your very first week, is
the embodiment of this commitment.
As an integral part of your first year of study, you
will be allocated a personal tutor who will remain
as your personal tutor throughout your degree.
They will provide support in your learning, your
personal development and in developing your
career aspirations.

Centre for Academic Skills


and Employability (CASE)
CASE offers students from the Faculty of Arts
and Social Sciences one-to-one help with
their studies, supporting both undergraduate
and postgraduate students with researching
and presenting, structuring and editing
traditional academic writing, structuring and
editing multimedia texts, and referencing.
CASE also provides a range of resources to
enhance employability, including help with
writing CVs, application forms and interview
preparation. Results show that students who
use the centre are significantly more likely
to complete their degrees. As students are
better equipped to act on feedback, they also
tend to do better in their studies.

Criminologists with a comparative analytical


background are increasingly in demand from a
range of international advocacy organisations. Due
to the strong research emphasis in the curriculum,
graduates will be well placed to join independent
and governmental policy/research units as well as
academic institutions.
Graduates in criminology have many career
opportunities, either directly related to their field of
specialism or more generally to their knowledge
and skills across policy fields. This degree will
provide you with the academic and practical
experience needed to go on to professional
training and career paths in a range of traditional
areas connected with criminal justice systems;
for example, the police, probation or the prison
service, and youth justice and harm reduction
programmes. Some of our graduates have joined
the Metropolitan Police Service, the London Fire
Brigade and work in community safety policy for
local government.
Others have also chosen to work in human
resources, business and leisure industries.
First degrees in criminology are well matched
by provision at postgraduate level in forensic
and criminal justice studies. Kingston offers an
MA in Criminology that is focused on offender
management and provides the opportunity to
develop practical experience or longer internships
in a range of settings and organisations.
What do our graduates do?
Cherry Khalifa: This degree tackled thorny
problems relating to the criminal justice system
and delved into the question of what crime
actually is through theory and analysis, research,
presentations and fieldwork projects. We also
had the choice to carry out analysis and research
in areas of particular interest. This especially
applied to the fieldwork projects and final year
assessments. Over the three years of this
course, which I thoroughly enjoyed, I developed
transferable skills that certainly helped me to find
the exciting and challenging job that I now have
with an advocacy group.
Abdi Haybe: By studying Criminology at
Kingston I was introduced to a wide range of
topics, issues and theories regarding crime and
the causes of crime. I was well prepared to start
a career when I graduated. I am currently working
as a social worker in the inner city, which is a very
challenging and rewarding profession.

What you will study


Examples of the modules currently offered are shown below. The number of modules taken
each year and the choices available will vary depending on whether you study Criminology
as a full field (single honours) or as a major, half or minor field (joint honours). The precise
module list varies from year to year as the course structure is reviewed and refined.

Our programme
What is criminal behaviour?
What are the causes of crime?
How and why does the definition of crime
change over time and between societies?
How should society deal with criminal activity?
This course applies the study of sociology,
psychology, politics and economics to an
understanding of the major questions in law
making, law breaking and law enforcement.
You will be introduced to the key principles of
criminal law and the processes of the criminal
justice system, from arrest to conviction. You
will consider why and how we punish offenders,
and the activity of policing including private
and paramilitary policing. You may also choose
to study an option such as human rights or
undertake an in-depth study of diversity and
discrimination in the criminal justice system.
From the start you will be engaged in actively
researching crime and the reasons why people
do not commit crime.
Studying abroad
Subject to availability and academic performance,
you will have the chance to spend Year 2 of your
studies abroad, still completing your degree in
three years. Many students have studied abroad
in Continental Europe, the United States, Australia
and New Zealand. Studying abroad helps students
to become more effective, independent learners,
and provides the opportunity for new experiences
and insights in different parts of the world.

In Year 1 you will be introduced to the key


principles of the criminal law and the processes
of the criminal justice system, from arrest to
conviction. You will investigate the impact of social
inequality on the distribution of justice, and will
relate your observations and experience to theories
about the causes of crime. From the start, you will
be engaged in actively researching crime and the
reasons why people dont commit crime.
In Year 2 you will consider why and how we
punish offenders, and the activity of policing
including private and paramilitary policing. You
will study the medias role in representing crime
and criminals to a broad audience. You may also
choose to study an option such as human rights,
or undertake an in-depth study of diversity and
discrimination in the criminal justice system.
In Year 3 you will undertake research that
is tailored to your interests and your future
employment. With the support of an academic
advisor, you will write an extended dissertation
and apply your criminological knowledge to real
world problems.
Kingston Language Scheme (KLS)
KLS enables you to learn a foreign language
alongside your programme of study, free of charge.
You can choose to study modules in Arabic,
French, German, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin
(Chinese), Portuguese, Spanish and Russian, with
or without prior knowledge of the language. Find
out more at www.kingston.ac.uk/kls

Year 1 modules
Crime, Law and Justice will provide an
introduction to the institutions, processes and
legal foundations of the criminal justice system
in England and Wales. The module is core to the
undergraduate degree and will familiarise you with
the language and reasoning of the criminal law,
and the structure and chronology of the criminal
justice process. There is an emphasis on the
development and practice of key academic skills,
especially information retrieval.
Foundations in Criminological Theory
introduces criminology as an academic field of
study. You will gain a broad understanding of the
development of theories in criminology on the
aetiology of crime, making connections between
theories of crime and crime control policies. The
criminological theories will be contextualised within
their social, historical and disciplinary knowledge
base, and evaluated in relation to their empirical
evidence, popularity and application. In addition to
the taught theory, key academic study skills, with
an emphasis on writing skills, will be embedded
within the weekly teaching. This will equip you with
appropriate academic proficiencies for your written
coursework, in addition to developing your ability
to participate actively in academic discussions
about criminology. The module encourages both
individual and group work, both inside and outside
of the classroom, to enhance your understanding
of criminological theory.
Violence, Transgression and Society will:
map historical and critical debates in criminology
to learners who are new to the subject;
introduce you to the notion of academic debate,
social and criminological research and contested
perspectives in criminology;
internationalise criminological learning through
the identification and analysis of local and global
social phenomena in urban contexts and beyond;
develop your ideas about core concepts in
criminology, such as crime and criminality,
through a historical, social and relational analysis
of transgression, disorder and violence; and
reflect on and bring together criminological and
social theory, concepts and research, with realworld events, issues, institutions, practices and
people.
The module will develop your ideas about
crime by analysing conceptions of violence,
transgression and disorderly behaviour by
reflecting on contemporary social problems,
issues and events. It identifies key state-related
institutions and interventions used to respond
to social problems and problem people by
way of reference to government, criminal justice
and welfare policies, systems, organisations,
practitioners and practices. The module will also
introduce the idea of social problems as global
social phenomena distinctive to specific historical,
cultural and geographical locations; examples
include prisons, riots, antisocial behaviour and
community breakdown.

The module brings together historical ideas about


governing and governance with conceptual and
theoretical ideas about power, social control and
social regulation, which are key to intellectual
debates in criminology. Those concepts and
theories are grounded in contemporary global social
phenomena that connect ideas about inequality,
social divisions and crime with research into
difference, social identifications and social groups.
The module will also reflect on the construction of
transgressive others. Ideas about social problems
are discussed in relation to problem people, such
as immigrants, social-housing tenants, homeless
people, problem families, sex workers, chavs and
gang members, encouraging you to think about the
role of class, gender, race and ethnicity for popular,
political and policy ideas about social problems that
require interventions.
In addition, this module will introduce you to the
principle and practice of effective group work and
requires that you engage with different ways of
presenting academic knowledge, research and
intellectual debates, including the use of visuals
and design in an academic poster presentation,
and report-style academic writing.
Social Research Methods introduces the many
methods and techniques used by criminologists and
sociologists to explore and test theory. The module
aims to ground your theoretical understanding of
society through the practical analysis of a variety
of data. It will introduce you to different theoretical
perspectives and how these perspectives may
influence choice of research method. You will study
both quantitative and qualitative methods, and you
will gain hands-on experience of some commonly
used tools of analysis and computer software
including software to map crime data.
Year 2 modules
Police and Penal Studies provides the
opportunity to undertake a critical examination of
contemporary debates on the control of crime and
purpose of punishment. You will be introduced to
a range of theoretical perspectives and debates
on the use of punishment to repress criminality,
and will be asked to consider the purpose of
punishment in modern societies. This will be
accompanied by an examination of different forms
of punishment, including an in-depth exploration
of the use of imprisonment and comparative
penal systems. The module will also develop your
existing knowledge of crime control by examining
the role of policing and the police in Britain
through the lens of a series of contemporary
policy developments, controversies and issues.
Crime, Media and Policy is designed to provide
you with a critical introduction to the field of crime
and the media. The module provides a historical
foundation to the subject, before reviewing key
media and criminological debates against 21stcentury concerns about crime and deviance. It
then explores criminological theory, crime in media
culture and the complex interactions between

consumers and producers. The module is designed


to provide you with the knowledge, understanding
and skills to critically engage with debates about
crime news reporting, media and moral panic,
media constructions of women and children, crime
fiction, film and television crime drama, crime and
surveillance society, and crime online. Direction to
core factual material and substantive material will
be provided via StudySpace, our online learning
resource, with weekly lectures and seminars used
to explain and explore key concepts, and present
visual material for dissemination and discussion.
Researching Crime Prevention and Community
will develop your understanding of one of the most
significant transformations in contemporary criminal
justice policy: the shift from crime detection to
crime prevention and community safety. Academic
commentary and criminological theory will be
used to explain and locate socially, politically and
economically the emergence of this approach to
crime and its control. The legislative programme
that resulted in creation of local preventative crime
and disorder partnerships will be studied, and
the key statutory responsibilities of these bodies
examined. The impact of crime and other forms of
social harm on individual victims and communities
will be evaluated. Your research skills will be
developed through the design and production of
an audit of the operational effectiveness on crime
prevention partnership and/ or on a specific crime
prevention or community safety initiative.
Diversity and Discrimination in the Criminal
Justice System will enable you to contextualise
criminologys past and present engagement with
diversity and discrimination. The relationship
between crime and discriminatory practices will
be explored. The responses of the criminal justice
process to diversity will be documented and
evaluated. You will also learn how to apply policy
and principles of good practice to particular cases.
Youth, Conformity and Transgression is divided
into two parts. The first part considers the social
construction of youth and the important role that
fashion and music plays in the establishment of
social identities and subcultures, and how youth
creates a sense of belonging. You will engage
critically with key social and political debates
affecting young peoples lives, including notions
of conformity and transgression. Part two will
further develop these notions of transgression
and will explore concepts of problem youth. You
will examine how young people are constructed
and understood in policy and political discourse,
and how they are managed as offenders and
victims of crime. This second part will include an
international perspective on youth justice, requiring
you to consider how the criminal justice system
can provide justice for young people.
Criminality, Deviance and the State in Early
Modern Europe will give you an understanding
of the cultural and social history of crime and
deviance in Britain and Europe c. 14501850.

Aspects of criminality covered include historical


approaches to the study of homicide and violence;
the relationship between gender and crime, for
example, in attitudes towards prostitution and
infanticide and in the prevalence of domestic crime;
attitudes towards sexual crimes such as rape and
sodomy; and notions of social crime within acts
of riot or protest. Aspects of deviancy considered
include womens adultery and effeminacy in men,
as well as the behaviours and lifestyles that left
many vulnerable to accusations of witchcraft. The
module will also look at the works of Enlightenment
thinkers such as Beccaria and Bentham, and the
impact of such ideas on a changing penal policy
that moved swiftly from maiming and attacking the
body, to the rise of new penitentiary systems in the
19th century, where, arguably, the mind became
the focus for punishment.
Year 3 modules
Transnational Crime introduces the concept of
transnational crime and highlights its significant
impact on contemporary globalised society. The
module utilises both criminological and socio-legal
perspectives within the subject area.
Politics of Crime in the Black Atlantic studies
the role played by race in all aspects of the
criminal justice systems in the United States and
United Kingdom. It takes, as its point of departure,
Professor Paul Gilroys 1993 concept of the
Black Atlantic as a culturalpolitical space of
hybridity involving Africa, America, Britain and the
Caribbean, and uses it to examine the extent to
which crime and the criminal justice system have
been politicised.
Gender, Race and Class begins by critiquing the
notion of gender and how gender expectations are
produced and mobilised. It will explore theoretical
arguments from contemporary authors and
sociological theorists, as well as classical feminists
such as Harriet Martineau, Jane Addams and
Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Though the module
will focus on gender, it also notes the importance
of intersectionality, and will explore important
relationships between gender, race, class and age.
Cyber Crime and Society introduces the concept
of cybercrime and highlights its significant impact
on contemporary globalised society. The module
unites criminological and socio-legal perspectives
within the subject area, and is designed to
provide you with the knowledge, understanding
and skills to critically engage with debates about
cybercrime, cyber-deviance and cyber-freedoms.
Direction to core factual and substantive material
will be provided via StudySpace, our online
learning resource, with weekly seminars to explain
and explore key concepts. You will be expected
to identify an aspect of cybercrime through your
own structured independent investigation, and to
subject it to an extended in-depth critical analysis.

Year 3 modules continued overleaf...

Year 3 modules continued...


Human Rights and Political Violence explores
the interaction between identity, violent conflict and
the abuse of human rights. The module provides
the opportunity to consider how protracted
conflicts may be better resolved more effectively
and human rights better protected. It blends
theoretical discussion of political violence with
an analysis of recent conflicts and the legal and
institutional mechanisms that have emerged to
reduce their detrimental impact on human rights.
Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity
examines some deeply troubling events in recent
history and politics, and the various ethical,
legal and political responses that they have
generated. It has been argued that the Holocaust
was a critical turning point, a catastrophe that
required a fundamental ethical, legal and political
rethinking of how the rights of human beings
could be protected when states in the modern
world engage in the systematic attempt to murder
large numbers of people, including many of their
own citizens. The module will reflect on the Nazi
attempt to eliminate the Jews, and considers a
range of responses, including the Nuremberg
trials, the Genocide Convention and the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights. It examines a
number of cases of genocide and crimes against
humanity that have nevertheless occurred
subsequently. It evaluates the repeated failure for
decades to halt or prevent these crimes, and then
considers the rethinking caused by the genocides
in Yugoslavia and Rwanda and the setting up of
ad-hoc tribunals and an International Criminal
Court to prosecute perpetrators and provide
justice to victims. The module concludes with

reflections on how much progress has been made


in protecting citizens in a world of sovereign nation
states, and what forms of justice can work after
such crimes have been committed.
Migration and Social Transformation looks at
how global migration has intensified rapidly since
1960, with the United Nations Population Division
estimating an increase from 80 million to 210 million
by 2009. It has become a contentious political topic
with far-reaching consequences for contemporary
societies and, arguably, for established sociological
paradigms as this module will explore. You will
understand and investigate the social dynamics of
migration and its consequences in depth, enabling
you to offer informed and critical comment on
contemporary debates (eg on the economics of
migration, its consequences for social solidarity
in the context of concurrent structural changes in
mobility and communications), and an opportunity
to develop an independent piece of work
developing a sustained argument concerning a
chosen topic within the field
Practice: Contemporary Issues and Debates will
introduce you to social and psychosocial aspects
of organisations and working life. It will encourage
you to think about structural forms, interpersonal
relationships and practices in organisational and
institutional settings of various sorts. You will learn
by observing and undertaking work-based practice
within subject-relevant residencies across criminal
justice, welfare and support fields. The principle
underlying the module is that worksites are important
contexts for you to test, validate, expand upon,
supplement and enrich their academic learning.

Consumption and Lifestyle explores various


theories of consumption at a national and
international level. A range of approaches will be
employed to enable you to study and understand
consumption within a political, cultural and
historical setting. You will also consider key
cultural, social and political processes involved
in consumer behaviours and practice, as well
as the contemporary sociological debates of
commodification, commercialisation, capitalism
and globalisation
The Dissertation module aims to provide you with
the study skills necessary to successfully complete
a final-year dissertation. You will be tutored in the
research steps involved in creating an extended
piece of academic work, and will develop a critical
understanding of the application of research skills,
data collection, hypothesis testing, report writing,
and organisation and presentation of data, where
applicable.

Our emphasis on teaching subjects


that are relevant to the world today, and
on producing graduates able to make a
positive contribution to that world, makes
the educational experience on offer in
our Faculty at Kingston unique among
universities in the United Kingdom.
Professor Martin McQuillan
Dean of Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

Teaching team
Dr Cecilia Cappel is responsible for teaching and
researching the area of interpersonal violence.
Dr Sylvia Collins-Mayo is the research adviser for
criminology and sociology. She is responsible for
modules in ethnography and youth studies. Her
research interests and publications are in young
peoples world views and religion.
Dr Rachael Dobsons research spans critical
social policy, welfare practice and relationality, and
theories of transgression.
Dr Francis Dodsworth explores crime, policing
and security, particularly personal security and
self-defence, from the perspectives of cultural
history and cultural studies.
Chris Hamerton is a barrister with a background in
socio-legal studies and expertise in trauma studies.
Dr Joanna Jamel is a first-year tutor who has
a multidisciplinary background in criminology,
sociology, investigative and forensic psychology.
Her research interests focus on sexual violence,
transphobic hate crime, policing, masculinities and
male sex work.
Amy Mitchell is responsible for modules in
criminological theory and fieldwork residencies.
She has a practitioner background in youth justice
and her research interests are in prison-based
education.
Dr Marisa Silvestri explores terrorism, police and
penal systems, and transnational crime.
Visit www.kingston.ac.uk/crimsocdept for more
information.

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Entry requirements
Typical offer
Single honours: 280 UCAS points
Joint honours: 280320 UCAS points,
depending on combination
Units: to include two A-levels or equivalent
Subjects: General Studies/Native Language
accepted only as one of three A-levels or
equivalent
Plus GCSE: Maths and English (A*C required)

HS(15.166)L

Please visit the course webpage for full details of


our entry requirements and UCAS codes.

Open days
International students
Non-UK students must meet our English
language requirements. For this course it is
IELTS 6.5 (with 5.5 in all elements if you require a
Tier 4 visa). However, this may not be necessary
if you have studied or lived in a majority Englishspeaking country. If you do not meet the English
language requirements, you may be eligible to
join our pre-sessional English language course:
www.kingston.ac.uk/presessional

Joint honours combinations

Interviews
For most courses, a decision will be made on
the basis of your application form alone.
However, for some courses, the selection
process may include an interview usually held
between December and April for full-time
students. The interviews may be on a one-toone basis, in a group or with your portfolio, and
you may be given a task such as participating in
a workshop, a short essay, questionnaire or
translation to demonstrate your strengths in
addition to any formal entry requirements.

You can choose to study Criminology in


combination with one of the following subjects:
Creative Writing
English Language & Linguistics
English Literature
Forensic Science
History
Human Rights
International Relations
Media & Communication
Politics
Psychology
Sociology
Spanish (minor field only)

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