You will develop the appropriate analytical and research techniques required to examine the fields of law and criminal justice, and can choose from optional modules including criminal law, comparative youth justice and professional knowledge of policing. You will also complete a module focussing on career planning and employability, and have the option to produce a substantial dissertation on a legal or legally related area, which may be set in the context of criminology and criminal justice.
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Systemic Violence (CCJ606)
The module will present the issue of systemic violence. Students will consider the social, political and economic forces that shape structures of oppression and harm, critically examining particular topics in depth. Examples include ‘hate’ crimes, workplace violence and gendered violence. The module will also examine legislation, policy and practice in relation to these topics.
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Global (In)security and the State (CCJ607)
This module explores the issue of global (in)security in the context of state and non-state conflict. Theoretical and conceptual understandings of crime, violence, victimisation and justice will be used to interrogate acts such as war crimes and terrorism. The module will address the history of such crimes and will critically explore State and international responses.
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Social Change and Justice (CCJ608)
This module examines how attitudes towards crime and justice have changed and developed over time. It will demonstrate the importance of historically and socially contextualising specific crimes in order to increase the understanding of their contemporary relevance, alongside examining the political and economic context.
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Crime, Control, Regulation and the Social (CCJ609)
This module critically examines steadfast and emergent social issues at the interplay between social control and the social, providing students with a critical understanding of how the social is regulated socially, culturally and legally. We will explore meanings, cultural significance, and political consequences from a criminological perspective.
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Green Criminology (CCJ610)
This module will address theoretical perspectives, methodological issues, and empirical research related to the field of green criminology, including applied concerns, such as policy and social/political praxis, through a range of concepts, topics, and themes that are central to green criminology.
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Leisure, Consumerism and Harm (CCJ611)
This module explores contemporary developments within the study of leisure and consumerism, offering a theoretically informed understanding of key issues at the forefront of the discipline. Students will have the opportunity to study the changing nature of criminology’s engagement with leisure against a backdrop of global consumer capitalism.
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Dissertation (LAW3222)
The production of a substantial dissertation (12,000-15,000 words) on a legal or legally related area with content and form determined by the student. For the LLB with CCJS or Business the dissertation will be set in context.
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Work-based Action Research (LAW3223)
A module in which BSc Law with Business or CCJS students apply legal skills (including research) and knowledge by undertaking practical legal research as part of their work-based learning.
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Company Law (LAW3226)
The module considers the key legal concepts, principles and policies relating to business organisation and corporate governance.
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Employment Law (LAW3228)
This final year elective module provides students with knowledge of a specialist area of law, namely Employment Law, whilst also continuing to offer development of general legal skills.
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Environmental Law (LAW3229)
The module provides an examination of key themes in environmental law, with a focus on the generation, application and enforcement of this law within a critical and applied context.
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Family Law (LAW3230)
This module will examine the principles of family law from both theoretical and practical perspectives.
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Commercial Law (LAW3233)
In outline this module covers elements of commercial law, trading, commercial relations and practice. It includes aspects of commercial transactions, agency, regulation enforcement and remedies.
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Immigration, Nationality and Refugee Law (LAW3235)
This module focuses on the key and topical issues in Immigration, Nationality and Refugee law in the UK. The UKs system of immigration control is fully considered and there is some emphasis on the application of decision making to those entering the UK both for immigration purposes and as refugees. There is consideration of the global and European context and of the influence of policy, politics and the media in the field.
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Intellectual Property and Information Law (LAW3237)
This module focuses on the law and concepts of intellectual property, examining in addition related legal themes of information access, dissemination and control.
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Criminal law (LAW3242)
"This module provides in depth examination of basic principles and concepts of criminal law, an introduction to modes of participation, and detailed analysis of selected offences and defences. The module fulfils the professional requirements of the Law Society and Bar Council.
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Law, Literature and the Screen (LAW3249)
To introduce students to fictional representations of the legal order in prose, film and TV, and to examine the inter-connections between law, literature and the screen.
