BA (Hons) Criminology with Foundation Bachelor's degree at Westminster

This module introduces you to the relationship between crime and society, equipping you with foundational knowledge of key criminological concepts and debates. By examining crime from multiple perspectives, you'll develop skills in thinking critically about its definition, measurement, and impact on individuals and communities. The module highlights the roles of media, policing, youth justice, and the criminal justice system as a whole in shaping perceptions and responses to crime. Additionally,

Critical thinking is fundamental to our ability to progress in an increasingly complex and changing world. It is an essential skill across a range of academic and practice-based disciplines. This module helps you understand the importance and function of critical thinking both at university and beyond. By working in partnership with academic staff and peers, you will explore how critical thinking aligns with disciplinary practices, shapes scholarly knowledge, and addresses inequalities. Through

This module introduces you to the key academic, professional, and personal skills essential for success at university. It encourages good practices in writing, presentation, and time management, while also fostering reflection to help you build confidence as you transition to higher education. Open to all students enrolled in courses delivered through Westminster Foundation Pathways, the module provides a creative and supportive environment where you can reflect on and develop their academic and

This module explores law as a question of power – asking what law, power and authority are, where you are located, how you operate, and how you change. The questions are raised through a particular focus on law and politics, the sociology of law and the history of legal ideas. The module's assessments serve to build the research and writing skills needed to succeed in higher education and beyond, and encourage you to develop and express your own diverse viewpoints on key issues relating to socia

This module explores the concept of rights in a variety of different contexts, considering where rights come from, how and why certain rights are protected, and how that protection has evolved over time. The module's assessments serve to build the research and writing skills needed to succeed in higher education and beyond, and encourage students to develop and express their own diverse viewpoints on key issues relating to social justice, (in)equality and sustainability.

This module introduces you to some current topics in the study of society, with a focus on key debates in sociology such as gender, race, class, the family and crime. The module prepares you to engage with the methods of teaching and learning at the university level. The multidisciplinary nature of the module enables you to form a more critical and analytical approach to issues which are relevant to your life experience.

Criminal justice policies and practices are shaped by competing political and social values surrounding notions of justice and human rights. This module explores and debates the efficacy of some of the most contentious issues in criminal justice, including police stop and search, victims' rights, child imprisonment, prisoner resettlement, human trafficking and the global 'war on terror'.

This module provides a broad introduction to criminology as an inter-disciplinary and critical subject area. The three key questions addressed will be: What is criminology? What is crime? And finally, what is knowledge? By the end of the module you'll be able to contrast traditional definitions of criminology, crime and knowledge with contemporary and critical approaches to defining these terms. The module will also provide level 4 students with a chance to develop study skills.

The module will focus on developing your understanding of key theoretical perspectives within criminology, including classicism, positivism and critical perspectives. You'll investigate how these perspectives have historically developed and continue to shape contemporary criminological thought and policy. By the end of the module, you'll be able to describe, identify and evaluate different theoretical perspectives from within criminology.

This module offers a critical examination of major institutions of justice; roles played by Parliament in producing criminal law, to the roles played by the police, prosecution, probation and prison service in law enforcement and punishment; roles of courts in adjudicating, sentencing and rectifying miscarriages of justice. Particular attention is paid to the consequences of British membership of the Council of Europe and the European Convention on Human Rights.

This module offers an introduction to criminological research methods and criminological imaginations in researching crime and justice. It provides core knowledge and skills to understand different research methods and develops a decolonising perspective on criminological research. You'll apply different methods to address current issues. The knowledge and skills developed through this module will provide an invaluable foundation for the level 5 methods module and the level 6 dissertation. The m

How much do you actually know about London's criminal underworld? This module considers the complex, diverse and widespread nature of crime as an unremarkable everyday feature of modern urban life. The module focuses on London, in particular the East End of London, from the earliest times and goes on to explore the changing nature of London's criminal 'underworld' from modernity to late modernity. Notorious criminal families such as the Krays as well as other colourful underworld characters will

Society's fascination with the 'criminal mind' is apparent in popular television programs depicting fictionalised criminal psychologists 'at work'.