Criminology and Sociology (4 years full time with Professional Placement) BSc (Hons)

**Reasons to choose Kingston**<br/>- Through a work placement or volunteering option, you’ll be able to practise your skills and gain valuable experience for your future career.<br/><br/><br/>- Fieldwork may include court observations, crime scene house, empirical research, and case study analysis, allowing you to apply theory to real-life situations.<br/><br/><br/>- Kingston has good connections with criminal justice organisations, international NGOs, charities, and governmental organisations.<br/><br/><br/>- We have a comprehensive programme of guest speakers, from detective sergeants and undercover operatives, to probation officers and NGO founders, who share their insights and experiences.<br/><br/><br/>- Our commitment to high quality teaching has been recognised with a Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) Gold rating. The University has received an overall rating of Gold, as well as securing a Gold award in the frameworks two new student experience and student outcomes categories. <br/><br/><br/>**About this course**<br/>This course explores the way societies understand crime and deviance and how they seek to secure social order, social justice, and social control. Across the course, you’ll consider how cultural and social values, life experiences and social inequalities are shaped by the social and global environments. You’ll consider how practices and attitudes of policing respond to social events and shifts in cultural attitudes and consider the ways the media can influence individuals’ perceptions of crime and its causes.<br/><br/>You’ll also study the criminal justice system in England and Wales, explore issues of discrimination in the criminal justice system and how social structures and institutions can disadvantage and marginalise groups in society. And you’ll draw global comparisons, considering the ways in which protests, political action, criminal activity, and policing, transcend national borders.<br/><br/>The course also offers opportunities for you to gain valuable work experience with victim support agencies, advocacy groups, justice campaigns, international charities and NGOs via a work placement module.<br/><br/>**Professional Placement Year**<br/>This course has a professional placement year which takes place between Year 2 and your Final Year. During this year, you will take a placement within a relevant setting, ensuring you gain essential experience to add to your CV and help you secure a graduate job.<br/>You’ll be encouraged to volunteer for relevant organisations such as victim support helplines, advocacy groups, justice campaigns, international charities and NGOs.<br/><br/>**Future Skills** <br/>Embedded within every course curriculum and throughout the whole Kingston experience, Future Skills will play a role in shaping you to become a future-proof graduate, providing you with the skills most valued by employers such as problem-solving, digital competency, and adaptability. <br/><br/>As you progress through your degree, youll learn to navigate, explore and apply these graduate skills, learning to demonstrate and articulate to employers how future skills give you the edge.<br/><br/>At Kingston University, were not just keeping up with change, were creating it. <br/><br/>**Career opportunities**<br/>The degree provides a good basis for careers in social and criminal justice, local and central government, teaching and research. For many graduates, their placement while at University leads to opportunities for professional training. Many others progress to postgraduate study.<br/><br/>This degree prepares you for life after university by teaching key transferable skills that employers are looking for. These include problem-solving and analytic skills; critical thinking and reasoning; team working, project planning and leadership; self-motivation and working independently; managing and interpreting data sets; written and oral communication, including public speaking.