Bachelor of Arts (Honours) - Social Policy and Criminology (L673)

Do prisons do more harm than good? What is the relationship between poverty and crime? This degree will offer students an exciting opportunity to examine issues which strike at the heart of many contemporary political and media debates. The Joint Honours Social Policy and Criminology degree combines popular subjects that offer complementary insights into a range of social problems and social harms. The Social Policy and Criminology degree will enable students to consider the ways that different societies produce contrasting levels of 'problems' and 'harms', such as drug and alcohol addiction, homicide, homelessness and workplace injury. Students will be encouraged to consider the reasons why these are designated as being either 'crimes' or 'social policy' issues and therefore are dealt with through contrasting 'welfare' or 'criminal justice' responses. Students on this programme who meet the requisite academic performance criteria will be offered the opportunity to undertake a specialist placement during the second year of the programme.