Course Intro
This course is for you if you are a practitioner working, or aiming to work, in relevant areas such as probation, youth justice, prisons, voluntary agencies working within the wider criminal justice system or if you are a postgraduate student looking to pursue an interest in the ideas and practical priorities which lie behind currently dominant notions of social and criminal justice.
This innovative course will combine attention to both, stressing the overlaps between them at the level of theory, and practice. It will offer a critical understanding of current debates on social justice, combined with a specific analysis of criminal justice. Its focus in both respects is on policy and practice in the contemporary UK - but with theoretical resources drawn from across the globe. It will provide a foundation for further research in criminology or social and political theory and for employment in a wide range of areas across the public and voluntary sectors.
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What You Study
Certificate Stage
• The Criminological Imagination
• Social Justice: Theory, Policy and Practice Concepts
• Concepts of Criminal and Social Justice
Diploma Stage
• Research Design and Methods
• Guided Independent Study 1 (Criminology)
• Guided Independent Study 2 (Social Justice)
Dissertation Stage
• Final Individual Project (Dissertation or Internship and Critical Report)
Where Next?
Further postgraduate study MPhil / PhD opportunities will be an option for graduates. In addition the course may help you develop your career.
Interview Required?
Yes. Students will either be invited to attend an interview or a telephone interview will be conducted.
Assessment
Essays, presentations, coursework and dissertation or internship report.
Student Soundbite
“This course is unique in combining applied approaches in criminology and social ethics to consider the wider meaning of justice.”