Course modules
What you will study on this degree
Further guidance on modules
Modules are designated core or optional in accordance with professional body requirements, as applicable, and LJMU’s Academic Framework Regulations. Whilst you are required to study core modules, optional modules provide you with an element of choice. Their availability may vary and will be subject to meeting minimum student numbers.
Where changes to modules are necessary these will be communicated as appropriate.
Year 1
Core modules
Crime, Law and Criminalisation I
20 credits
History of Crime and Criminal Justice
20 credits
Criminal Justice System
20 credits
Criminological Theory
20 credits
Media, Public and Criminal Justice
20 credits
Personal and Academic Development in Criminal Justice
20 credits
Year 2
Core modules
Professional Development in Criminal Justice
20 credits
Injustices in a 'Just' System
20 credits
Knowledge Production and Transfer in Criminal Justice
20 credits
New Directions in Criminological Theory
20 credits
Optional modules
An Introduction to Penology
20 credits
Study Year Abroad - Criminal Justice
120 credits
Victimology
20 credits
Rehabilitation and Desistance in Criminal Justice
20 credits
Year 3
Core modules
Criminal Justice Futures: Employability Skills for the Workplace
20 credits
Optional modules
Contemporary Issues in Prisons and Probation
20 credits
Policing
20 credits
Youth Justice
20 credits
Substance Use, Society and Criminal Justice
20 credits
Dissertation
40 credits
Regulation, Harm and Victimisation
20 credits
Comparative Criminal Justice
20 credits
Green Criminology and Environmental Crime
20 credits
Violence and Society
20 credits
The Criminal Courts - The Search for Equity and Justice
20 credits
Terror and Terrorism: A Critical Exploration
20 credits