Subjects · Social and behavioural sciences
κ Criminology
Theories, the justice system and research evidence, connected.
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The toolkit
- Qualitative coding studioAvailable
Code selected passages across documents, develop a codebook, inspect extracts and organise candidate themes.
- Claim and evidence mapAvailable
Connect sources to claims, preserve counterarguments and see gaps in an argument before writing.
- Justice pathway explorerAvailable
Follow alternative adult England-and-Wales routes, compare institutional roles and test common assumptions.
- Research design chooserAvailable
Work from your question and available information to a design rationale and a saved next-step plan.
- Theory comparison workbenchAvailable
Compare five theoretical perspectives, connect them to evidence and save your own application notes.
- Criminology research worksheetsAvailable
Save and reopen prompted workspaces for evidence appraisal, research design, policy evaluation and headline audits.
- Criminology calculatorsAvailable
Rates, standardisation, recording, reoffending, disparity and evaluation arithmetic, grouped in one place.
Skills you build
- Evaluating theories against evidence
- Interpreting crime statistics
- Research design
- Policy analysis
How you are assessed
- Essays
- Research reports
- Exams
- Presentations
- Dissertation
Referencing: usually Harvard. Your department's handbook has the final word.
Learn: 264 teaching pages
Criminology has 264 teaching pages, a full course, topic by topic. Each page has a plain-English explanation with the key idea in a box, figures and worked examples where they help, check-your-understanding questions with model answers, and a reference list.
- Comparative and global perspectives on crime
- Crime and the social structure
- Class, deprivation and neighbourhood disadvantage
- Race, ethnicity and criminalisation
- Gendered patterns of offending and victimisation
- Age, generation and the life course
- Disability, vulnerability and justice
- Sexuality, identity and hate crime
- Migration, borders and belonging
- Intersectionality as an analytical approach
- Neighbourhood change, housing and opportunity
- Power, privilege and crimes of the powerful
and 252 more.
Accreditation and professional routes
- No single accrediting body
Our teaching pages and tools are a study guide to support your degree, not a replacement for your lectures, seminars, reading or university materials. We take great care over accuracy, but where anything differs from what your course teaches, follow your course.