Criminology

About this course

Criminology is the scientific and social study of crime, deviance, and the responses that individuals, communities, and institutions make to them. It asks fundamental questions about why activities come to be defined as criminal in the first place, how those definitions change across time and place, what causes people to offend or to desist from offending, how victims experience harm, and whether the various approaches taken to prevention, policing, prosecution, and punishment actually work. Drawing on sociology, psychology, law, and philosophy, criminology is an inherently interdisciplinary subject that engages with some of the most contested and consequential questions in public life. At Queen's University Belfast this three-year full-time programme offers a particularly distinctive vantage point, situated in a society that has experienced significant political conflict and is engaged

Where its graduates go

The 5 largest scored destinations, covering 35% of graduates; the headline also reflects the subject baseline.

• 72 / 100Information Technology Professionals · 3% of graduatescards →
• 60 / 100Business, Research and Administrative Professionals · 5% of graduatescards →
• 55 / 100Administrative occupations · 11% of graduatescards →
• 52 / 100Finance Professionals · 8% of graduatescards →
• 48 / 100Business and public service associate professionals · 8% of graduatescards →

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