Criminology and Sociology BSc Launched at St Mary’s

St Mary’s University, Twickenham has announced the launch of a new undergraduate BSc Criminology and Sociology degree, available for 2015 entry. Criminology and Sociology BSc has been designed as a contemporary degree, which will prepare students for their chosen career path, whilst maintaining roots in classical sociology. Through a range of taught modules and opportunities for work placements, it will equip undergraduates with an understanding of key conceptual issues involved in the study of society, crime and criminal justice. The course will join the existing Sociology BSc programme in St Mary’s School of Arts and Humanities and will be taught by leading academics in the field, Programme Director Nic Groombridge and Senior Lecturer Carole Murphy. Students will also benefit from regular guest speakers. The first cohort of students will join the programme in September 2015 and will be able to study a range of specialist areas of crime including drugs, the media, human rights, green criminology, social justice, gender, sexuality and ethnicity. Nic Groombridge said, “I’ve worked for the Home Office and now as an academic in the area of crime and criminal justice policy for all my working life. This has not dimmed my passion for teaching and researching about crime and other harms, and what is to be done about it. I’ve been teaching criminology in our sociology degree, as well as blog and tweet about it to a wider audience, but am looking forward to teaching criminology students here at St Mary’s.” For more information about the programme, please contact Nic at nicholas.groombridge@stmarys.ac.uk.