The MA Criminology allows you to develop specialist knowledge of the current trends and historical debates surrounding crime causation, crime control and regulation. This innovative, interdisciplinary course is taught by experts from sociological, legal and psychological backgrounds with real-world experience. You will benefit from research-led teaching as well as strong links to wider criminal justice professions and industry. Whether you are a recent graduate, or a practitioner or professional already working in the criminal justice field, this course will enable you to gain a critical understanding of contemporary criminological and socio-legal issues and engage with a diverse range of methods used to research them. It aims to develop students' intellectual, critical and analytic skills in the academic areas of criminology and criminal justice, produce graduates who have a thorough understanding of the key theoretical and political positions and concepts within criminology and criminal justice and the ability to use this knowledge in sophisticated ways in the critical assessment and development of public policy and interventions, provide students with the opportunity to explore, through a range of optional courses, particular areas of study that are either professionally relevant or of academic interest and provide students quantitative and qualitative research method skills in a way that is consistent with the demands of the discipline and the professional market.