BA (Hons) Criminology and Sociology Bachelor's degree at Sheffield Hallam University

This module develops a foundational understanding of the disciplines, criminology and sociology across a range of social contexts. You'll study topics such as: Contemporary criminological and sociological concepts and perspectives; Ethical and rights-based notions of justice, exclusion and stigmatisation; Disparity of outcomes; Ideas and conceptual understanding of the field; Critical reflection on student positionality; Graduate attributes for criminal and social justice settings

Assessment: Coursework (100%)

This module expands your foundational knowledge, focusing on the application of research methods across a range of social contexts and structures. You'll study topics such as: Criminalisation and marginalisation; Impact on responses and policy development; Human rights, social justice, penal/social policy and crime; Social research techniques and their application in practice; Enhancement of key transferable global skills; Critical reflection on values to inform student positionality; An action

Assessment: Coursework (100%)

This module develops critical, theoretical and practice knowledge and research methods into how individuals interact with society's institutions, domains and settings. We'll explore this socio-crime nexus through data analysis and creation, including how applying social science research methods helps us understand the harms to individuals in different settings. You'll study settings such as: Education; Health; Identity; Areas of geo-poverty and depravation; State crime; Women, crime and poverty

Assessment: Coursework (100%)

This module is an opportunity to work in a relevant environment, fully engaging with the specific agency, organisation or provider to develop your skills, knowledge and values. You'll be supported with on-campus and online teaching while spending a portion of the week with a relevant provider in a physical or virtual workplace setting – a placement we can provide or you can self-source (with agreement). You'll apply learning and skills such as: Application and interview for selection; Risk asses

Assessment: Coursework (100%)

This module engages you with workplace and work-related activities determined by external clients – you'll get to explore your personal values and reflect on your skills while enhancing your knowledge of the workplace. You'll collaborate to develop your graduate employability skills for career readiness and research skills for onward study, with learning support in on-campus and online lectures and seminars. You'll apply your learning and skills to: Experiential learning activities and careers s

Assessment: Coursework (100%)

This module is for undergraduate students to study abroad in their second year, Semester 2 (only for courses that offer this option). With this module, you can spend a semester at one of the University's approved partner institutions worldwide – from Europe to the Americas, Asia Australia or Canada. Study Abroad plays an important role in the University's commitment to an engaging, challenging, and thriving learning culture. It offers opportunities to experience other academic cultures and foste

Assessment: Coursework (100%)

The aim of this module is to enhance students' professional development through the completion of and reflection on meaningful work placement(s). A work placement will provide students with opportunities to experience the realities of professional employment and experience how their course can be applied within their chosen industry setting. The placement will: Allow student to apply the skills, theories and behaviours relevant and in addition to their course; Enable students to enhance their in

Assessment: Coursework (100%)

This module develops specialised knowledge and a critical understanding of global and human security, including our responses to 21st century threats and crimes – with a strong emphasis on the meanings and salience of race, colonialism, decolonisation and justice. You'll study topics such as: Ongoing colonial crimes and 21st century threats; Climate crime; Migration and displacement; Racial capitalism; Digital poverty; Forced digitalisation; The criminality of security issues; The coloniality of

Assessment: Coursework (100%)

You'll develop critical abilities and awareness of comparative criminal justice – looking at how criminal justice is 'done' in different jurisdictions, engaging with comparative research designs, and critically unpicking research from multiple jurisdictions. You'll study topics such as: Critical research skills; Global awareness; Comparing and contrasting crime; Social context and responses to crime internationally; Theories of policy transfer; The impact of global politics on criminal justice;

Assessment: Coursework (100%)

This module highlights controversial policing policies and practices which operate in ways that marginalise a range of population groups. We'll explore social-control themes of plural policing, legitimacy, compliance and punishment through policing on an international scale. You'll study topics such as: Policing sub-criminal behaviour; Stop and search; Policing protest; Surveillance networks; Policing vulnerabilities

Assessment: Coursework (100%)

This module explores and interrogates concepts of crime, harm and justice – critically considering how actions of states and corporations can cause harm in developed and developing countries, and how these actions are regulated and resisted. You'll study topics such as: Harms online; Migration; Environmental harm; Surveillance; The intersections of harm; Interconnections between differing spatial scales; Power and discourse; State-corporate crime; Green criminology

Assessment: Coursework (100%)

This module examines drugs, drug use and drug abuse in wider social, cultural, economic and political contexts. The module challenges you to get familiar with topical debates and discourses in relation to drug use, policy and practice. You'll study topics such as: A review of key issues and debates; Social theories and models of drug use; Illegal drug markets; Theory and research practice; Treatment and testing; Drugs and deprivation; Harm reduction; Wider social issues and drugs; Structural vio

Assessment: Coursework (100%)

This module explores contemporary issues in health and disability through the lens of education, using a critical range of conceptual and theoretical tools. You'll study topics such as: The role of education in society; Theoretical approaches to education, health and disability; Politics and educational policy making; Structures of advantage and disadvantage in education

Assessment: Coursework (100%)

This module provides a rigorous sociological analysis of the concept of families, relationships, age and stages of the life course. By combing theoretical, policy and empirical knowledge, we'll showcase a wide range of materials and case studies to make sure you're well-grounded in a variety of concepts, empowering you to undertake collaborative enquiry to assess your own life, culture and society. You'll study topics such as: Sociological perspectives on family and kinship structures; The chang

Assessment: Coursework (100%)

This module examines contemporary gendered injustices and critically considers how the state defines, controls and responds to harms – in both public and private – through complex social structures that serve to (re)produce and maintain them. You'll study topics such as: Gender and feminist epistemologies; Women's experiences and treatment in the criminal justice system; The intersections of gender, 'race' and class; Sex work and the regulation of femininity; Violence and the British asylum syst

Assessment: Coursework (100%)