Criminology

About this course

Criminology is the social scientific study of crime, deviance, and the social responses to them. It asks who defines what counts as criminal, why those definitions change over time, what causes people to engage in law-breaking behaviour, how crime affects victims and communities, and how the criminal justice system, including the police, courts, and prisons, responds to crime and punishment. Unlike forensic science, which deals with the physical investigation of crime scenes, criminology is a social science, drawing on sociology, psychology, law, philosophy, and history to understand crime as a social and political phenomenon rather than purely as an individual act. At the University of Salford, this three-year full-time degree develops a rigorous grounding in criminological theory and empirical research. You will examine the major theoretical frameworks for understanding crime and devi

Where its graduates go

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• 48 / 100Business and public service associate professionals · 6% of graduatescards →
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