The BA (Hons) Criminology at Liverpool John Moores University is taught by research active experts and offers exciting opportunites for international fieldwork.

This interdisciplinary BA course gives you the chance to look at criminology from the perspective of other disciplines such as geography, history, psychology, political science and sociology giving you a much broader understanding of the subject.

Throughout the course, you will be encouraged to develop your critical thinking skills by questioning what we mean by the terms ‘crime’, ‘criminals’, ‘punishment’ and ‘justice’. 

For example, how are such terms constructed and what are the implications for practice? In the third year, you will have an opportunity to choose option modules to explore crime and criminal justice across a range of issues and specialisms and to locate UK based developments and debates within an international context

Your degree could be useful in a range of fields including:

• policy and administration
• government advice
• the children, young people's and youth justice workforces
• social work, prison and probation services
• research
• academia
• policing
• investigating miscarriages of justice
• media research
• crime documentary and fiction screenwriting/production
• writing and journalism
• teaching
• working in charities and community organisations