Criminology

About this course

Criminology is the study of crime, criminal behaviour, and the social institutions that respond to it. It draws on sociology, psychology, law, and history to ask fundamental questions: why do people commit crimes, how does society define what counts as criminal, and do the systems designed to prevent and punish crime actually work? These are questions with no simple answers, and criminology trains you to think rigorously about evidence, competing theories, and the social contexts that shape both offending and the responses to it. At Teesside University, this three-year full-time degree develops both your academic knowledge and the practical skills that underpin it. You will study theories of crime and deviance, the structure and operation of the criminal justice system, questions of policing and punishment, and the social dimensions of crime including its relationship to inequality, rac

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