Criminology

Entry requirements

• Bachelor's (Honours) degree in a cognate subject at 2:1 or above (or overseas equivalent); and
• Master's degree in a relevant subject - with an overall average of 65% or above, a minimum mark of 65% in your dissertation and no mark below 55% (or overseas equivalent)

Months of entry

January, September

Course content

The Department of Criminology has specialists in research around five key themes:

• Fraud, white-collar and organised crime;
• Prisons, punishment and policing;
• Violence, abuse, exploitation and intersectionalities;
• Quantitative measurement and evaluations of crime and deviance;
• Drug markets, consumption and policy.

The School welcomes applications that fit with the particular specialisms of our research staff. For example, we currently have grants in the areas of desistance, fraud, drugs, cryptomarkets, modern slavery, corruption, organised crime, policing and punishment, amongst others.

In addition, the department has extensive skills in diverse methodologies, including:

• biographical and narrative approaches to interviewing;
• ethnography;
• psychosocial case analysis;
• network analysis;
• deliberative methods;
• qualitative and quantitative longitudinal research;
• survey design and applied statistical analysis;
• programme evaluation;
• policy analysis.

Find out what some of our current postgraduate researchers are working on.