Praxisbezug - Crime and Justice

The main aims of the programme are:
- to provide opportunities for students to study a range of current issues in criminology and
criminal justice and to write a substantial piece of academic work
- to enable students to examine the social dimensions of crime and criminal justice and the
treatment of diverse groups within the criminal justice context
- to enable students to examine critically the role and function of the criminal justice process
and criminal justice policy-making, with reference to the global context
- to provide an opportunity for students to develop an understanding of the application of
criminological and criminal justice principles to issues of law enforcement and offender
management
- to provide an advanced understanding of the criminological theory of offending, the extent
of crime and the relationship between crime and criminal justice
- to provide a broadly-based social science research training, with specialist training in
criminological and criminal justice research
- to develop students’ critical appreciation of approaches to strategic management and ‘best
practice’ in the criminal justice process
- to provide students with a wide range of transferable and professional employment related
skills.