Criminology with Psychology - BA (Hons)

University of Sussex

**=10th in the UK for Psychology (ShanghaiRanking Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2023)**

**9th in the UK for Social Sciences (The Times Higher Education World University Rankings by Subject 2024)**

**=18th in the UK for Psychology (QS World University Rankings by Subject 2024)**

**About the course**
Crime, its manifestations, causes and consequences are a concern worldwide. There’s a global need for real-world understanding of crime, criminals and punishment.

On this course, you’ll explore crime and deviance from an interdisciplinary perspective, combining criminological and psychological perspectives. You’ll study:


- the wider social and structural issues associated with crime


- the ‘inner’ psychological workings of people.


In your final-year project, you’ll learn to formulate criminological and/or psychological questions, plan how to answer them and conduct your own research.

Our research underpins our teaching. You’ll learn from faculty actively involved in research into areas including:


- (violent) extremism, online extremism/terrorism and counter-terrorism policy


- hate crime policy, gender/disability and victimisation


- women who kill, gender and crime, race and crime


- capital punishment, cultural and historical criminology.


As a graduate, you’ll have critical thinking, research methods (for example, interviews and document analysis) and quantitative methods (for example, large survey design) skills for a wide range of careers.

**About Sussex**

Our courses, research, culture and campus aim to stimulate, excite and challenge. From scientific discovery to global policy, from student welfare to career development, Sussex innovates and takes a lead. And today, in every part of society and across the world, you'll find someone from Sussex making an original and valuable contribution.

**Location**

Study on our beautiful, green campus on the edge of the South Downs National Park and just minutes from the vibrant seaside city of Brighton & Hove. We’re near to Gatwick airport and just over an hour from London.

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