Combining the specialist study of criminology with a broad approach to sociological questions, our course emboldens you to study crime, criminals, and criminal justice within wider social contexts.
Guided by our expert staff who specialise in terrorism, prisons, drug abuse, and crime in the media, you explore how criminal activity interlinks with age, gender, and social concepts such as power and identity.
You will study areas including: Social divisions, inequality, the nature of work and commercial culture, Culture, identity and subjectivity
Public policy regarding health, the environment, crime and aging, Visual criminology, Social history and crime
As an Essex criminology graduate, you can use the skills and knowledge gained from your degree to pursue a range of fulfilling careers. Careers linked to criminology are varied. Our courses provide an excellent training for work within the criminal justice system, for example as community safety officers, risk assessors, court managers, researchers, paralegals, police officers, probation officers and youth workers.
In recent years our graduates have gone on to work in a range of high-profile organisations including: The Institute of Public Finance
Guardian Professional, United Synergy Healthcare Research