Program Overview

MA Criminology and Criminal Justice

Overview

The MA Criminology and Criminal Justice aims to prepare you for a career in the broad field of criminal justice by developing your awareness of current problems in crime and harm and equipping you with the knowledge and skills needed to contribute to and lead professional services across the criminal justice sector.

Why Study with Us

• Gain skills and knowledge vital to higher-level criminal justice practitioners.
• Study alongside experienced researchers and practitioners with extensive experience working in and around criminal justice.
• Foster your ability to identify, build and employ evidence-based practice.

Course Modules

Core Modules

• Current Criminological Concepts: You will be introduced to explanations of crime suited to the current times in which we live. It will build on the criticisms levelled at 20th-century theoretical frameworks and move forward to familiarise you with the latest 21st-century frameworks currently in use and/or under development.
• Practical Criminological Research: Develop an advanced understanding of the processes and issues of social research. Drawing upon the philosophical underpinnings which are central to research methodologies, this module will encourage you to consider the relationship between theory, methods and data and to critically consider the need to balance theory with conducting research on real issues in the real world.
• Justice and Control in the 21st Century: The module examines the institutions, practices and processes that make up the criminal justice system. Your study will focus on policing, the penal system and the probation service, youth justice, gender and masculinities, analysing the social, economic and political factors that underpin these institutions and their impact on particular groups.
• Illicit Markets: You will develop the knowledge, understanding and skills to research criminal markets in the 21st century. You’ll be introduced to the field of global crime, critically engaging with debates about the criminogenic effects of global network capitalism.
• Scholarly Project: You will demonstrate your awareness and skills in research and evaluation, and your ability to integrate, synthesise and critique criminological content, concepts and research methodologies through the production of an extended piece of independent work based on a criminological topic of your choice.

Course Structures

September - Full-time

September - Part-time

Learning and Teaching

• Our strategy is to provide an excellent student experience and provide you with the tools and support to help you achieve your academic, personal and professional potential.
• We use a range of assessment methods throughout the course, which includes:
  • Essays
  • Podcasts
  • Group and individual presentations
  • Scholarly Project

Entry Requirements

• An honours degree (minimum 2:2) in a relevant subject such as criminology, sociology, psychology, policing or the wider social sciences (politics, economics).
• Alternatively, we will consider applicants with equivalent professional experience.

Fees and Finance

Funding

• UK Home Students: For information about our tuition fees please visit our Student Fees and Finance pages.
• International Students, including EU Students: Visit our web page for international students.

Leeds Trinity Alumni Discount

• Some Leeds Trinity graduates are eligible for a tuition fee discount on postgraduate courses of up to 50%, excluding PGCE Delivery Partner Model and Lead Partner Model, and Masters by Research courses.

How to Apply

• There is no official closing date for applications, but the course will be closed when it is full. We therefore encourage you to make your application as early as possible.
• Please ensure you complete the application form in full and supply all the required supporting documentation when you make your initial application. Incomplete applications may be rejected.