BA (Hons) Criminology and Criminal Justice Bachelor's degree at East London

Prepare yourself for the professional world by building key career skills that employers value. You'll explore career pathways, practise job application essentials, create a professional LinkedIn profile, and develop networking confidence through workshops and real-world activities. Supported by academic staff and career coaches, you'll reflect on your strengths, set goals, and build a strategy for personal development. Scenario-based learning, digital skills training, and guest speaker sessions

Strengthen your academic and professional skills while gaining a clear understanding of what university study demands. You'll work through real-world scenarios to build essential abilities in time management, research, digital literacy, and academic communication. Guided by industry experts and academic staff, you'll practise using digital platforms, refine your study techniques, and learn how to approach higher-level learning with confidence. With a focus on reflection and skill-building, you'l

Confidence with numbers is vital in today's professional world. This module builds your skills in interpreting data, solving practical problems, and using digital tools for analysis and visualisation. You'll work on tasks like calculating financial data, understanding averages, and applying basic probability to real business scenarios. Through guided workshops and digital practice, you'll become comfortable analysing information and using it to make decisions, an essential ability for higher ed

Communication is a key driver of business success. You'll learn to adapt your speaking and writing styles to different audiences, develop persuasive techniques, and refine your digital communication skills. Practical activities in scenario-based learning spaces, alongside industry speakers, will sharpen your professional voice. Through real-world tasks, you'll also practise active listening, negotiation, and effective teamwork. By the end of this module, you'll understand how powerful communicat

Law and justice are explored through real-world cases and critical scenarios. You'll analyse legal principles, criminal justice processes, and criminological theories in practical settings. Workshops, court visits, and simulated legal tasks will sharpen your ability to apply theory to professional challenges. Understanding how social factors interact with legal frameworks forms a key part of the module, helping you build the analytical and reflective skills needed for future studies in law or cr

This module will introduce students to the key thinking and research, historically and presently, about the causes and consequences of crime on society. It will also examine and explore many of the key issues that face us when trying to understand how best to deal with those who commit crimes. It will consider crime as a social construction, the construction of victims and perpetrators, and the ways in which crimes of the powerful are overlooked by focusing on working-class groups. It will explo

This module will examine the structural factors, including poverty, racism and discrimination, underpinning our understanding of crime and social justice. You will examine our responses to stress and develop practical mindfulness skills to deal with that stress, fully cognisant of its systemic origins, in order to empower us to resist and confront those systemic factors. You will have the opportunity to develop a proposal for a crime and justice project (e.g., a youth engagement project or a dig

You will develop positive notions of mutual respect by fostering a safe learning environment where you are encouraged to share your views on key political and criminological issues. You will develop listening skills and experience the power of having your voice heard. The module will provide you with a stimulating introduction to a selection of the issues of current concerns within the fields of criminology and criminal justice studies. The module also intends to introduce you to more general is

This module aims to provide essential knowledge and analysis of the criminal justice process and acts as a foundation for the other courses on the criminology and criminal justice degree. You will be introduced to recent developments in criminal justice policy in relation to adult offenders and encouraged to engage critically in current debates.

The module is intended to provide an introduction to criminological theory, examining historical, social and cultural context surrounding the development of various theoretical perspectives, how these propose we deal with crime and their relevance to contemporary problems.

The primary aim will be to introduce you to the understanding of crime through the study of social history, focusing in particular on the emergence and growth of the modern 'criminal-legal complex'. You will be made aware that throughout history the explanation of 'crime' and the concept of 'the criminal' has been constructed, and this construction is intimately connected to changes in philosophical and social ideas, and, economic and political forces. More specifically the course aims to introd

This module builds on Developing Skills for Justice at Level 4. In this module we will focus more on group work essential for success in the workplace. We will develop teamwork skills, group facilitation and active listening skills. Students will use these skills in groups to develop a project related to crime and justice that some students proposed at Level 4 (e.g., a youth engagement project or a digital campaign to reduce hate crime or knife crime).

This module will first outline some of the key sociological theories of crime and deviance in post-modern society and the sociocultural and political-economic contexts in which they have emerged. It will then move on to examine and discuss the complex processes at play within contemporary society – driven by the media and the police – that have resulted in the trend toward the increasing criminalisation of social policy. In particular, it will explore the public anxieties and media fixations upo

The module assists you in developing engagement with ideas beyond police investigation and operations by considering the wider social context of contemporary policing. Recent developments and current debates on police and policing are explored in relation to the demands created by modern diverse communities, seeking to help students develop independent thinking on the social consent given to the police's role in dealing with crime as part of a criminal justice system.

This course offers the opportunity of year-long placement between years two and three. If you choose to take this option, you'll spend your third year on a placement with a relevant company or organisation, adding valuable practical experience to your growing academic knowledge. The extra placement year means it will take four years to complete your studies, instead of three.

This module provides you with the opportunity to build on Developing Skills for Justice and Essential Skills for Justice at Levels 4 and 5. You will develop core employability skills and acquire tangible evidence to support your employability narrative at interviews. You will develop and demonstrate skills in (i) the analysis of a problem (ii) planning and organising a task/project, including time management (iii) exercising judgement in the light of observed and published data (iv) compiling a

The module aims to: provide you with a critical introduction to the concept of cybercrime; examine the impact of cybercrime on contemporary society, including a focus on key areas such as financial cybercrime, online abuse and hate, cyber terrorism; provide you with the knowledge, understanding and skills to critically engage with debates and research about cybercrime, cyber-deviance, freedom and privacy; provide you with the skills to design and undertake a small research project in the area of