Criminology and Social Policy (BSc) at Cardiff University

This degree programme is an opportunity to study both Criminology and Social Policy within an interdisciplinary social sciences context.

This programme combines Criminology, focusing on criminalisation, victimisation and social responses to crime and disorder, with Social Policy, studying how societies respond to human need and seek to promote the wellbeing of their members.

Teaching draws on a range of social science perspectives and offers you the chance to explore sociological and political attitudes to crime and its control, along with debates on the goals of social policy: how do we decide what human needs are and whose responsibility is it to meet human needs.

Distinctive features

• The opportunity to learn from leading criminologists with strong links to police, probation and prisons, as well as local authorities, and Welsh and UK government institutions.
• Study in a School ranked 3rd in the UK for research quality in sociology and 5th for education in the 2014 Research Excellent Framework (REF).
• Research-active staff are involved in teaching this programme.
• Emphasis on independent learning in a research-led environment.
• A wide variety of modules on offer in a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary School.
• Option to extend to a four year programme, spending Year Three on a professional placement or studying abroad.