Criminology

About this course

Criminology brings the tools of social science to bear on some of the most challenging questions in contemporary society, asking why people commit crimes, how the justice system responds, and whether its outcomes are fair and effective. It is a discipline that refuses simple answers, drawing on sociology, psychology, law, and history to examine the social conditions that shape offending, the institutions through which crime is defined and policed, and the experiences of both those who commit offences and those who are harmed by them. At its best it combines intellectual rigour with a commitment to understanding how real systems affect real people. At Abertay University, you will study Criminology over four years, full time, with a year abroad built into the programme. Abertay's setting in Dundee, a city with its own complex economic and social history, gives the programme a grounded qua

Where its graduates go

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