MSc Criminology and Criminal Psychology

at Canterbury Christ Church University

This is a multidisciplinary Master’s degree that will facilitate an informed understanding of crime from different perspectives within social and psychological sciences. The MSc focuses on the key theoretical and empirical dimensions that are central to understanding the individual, group and societal nature of crime. Drawing on a wide variety of social scientific and psychological traditions, this engaging and fascinating degree gets to the heart of the meaning, causes and responses to crime and criminal behaviour.

You will learn to systematically apply theories and concepts from criminology and psychology to understand historical and contemporary debates relating to criminal activity. You will also develop your ability to utilise an empirical evidence-base to understand how crime is researched and theorised. Central to this captivating degree is an explicit grounding of understandings of crime on conceptualisations of justice – criminal, social, political, environmental etc. This concern for fully understanding meanings of justice opens the possibility for explorations of crime to the fullest.