Cambridge, United Kingdom

Criminology

Master's
Language: EnglishStudies in English
Subject area: security services
Qualification: MA
Kind of studies: full-time studies, part-time studies
Master of Arts (MA)
This course will enable you to explore practical and theoretical aspects of transnational criminal activities, including models and methods of detection, policing, social control and sanctions. A range of theoretical standpoints will enable you to understand Western legal and social traditions, in order to develop a comparative framework. You will also be encouraged to develop vocational and applied approaches.

Themes on our course include: the structure and nature of organised illicit trade and criminal enterprise; the concept of the risk society; violence in society; responses to transnational crimes through policing initiatives, agreements and treaties; western legal practices and sentencing frameworks; and critical enquiries into the effects of changing serious crime levels; terror-news; moral panics; and the mobilisation of nations.
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Criminology
Criminology (from Latin crīmen, "accusation" originally derived from the Ancient Greek verb "krino" "κρίνω", and Ancient Greek -λογία, -logy|-logia, from "logos" meaning: “word,” “reason,” or “plan”) is the scientific study of the nature, extent, management, causes, control, consequences, and prevention of criminal behavior, both on the individual and social levels. Criminology is an interdisciplinary field in both the behavioral and social sciences, drawing especially upon the research of sociologists, psychologists, philosophers, psychiatrists, biologists, social anthropologists, as well as scholars of law.
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