MSc in Criminology and Criminal Justice
This Masters Programme, which ran for the first time in 2001-2002, offers an innovative and original approach to the study of crime and punishment and current international research on policy and practice, with a particular focus on recent developments in Scotland.
There are three compulsory modules:
- Research Methods in Criminal Justice: This course places a particular focus on developing skills in assessing research into crime and criminal justice.
- Current Issues in Crime and Punishment: This course offers a basic grounding in issues of policy and theory in the areas of crime and punishment.
- Criminal Justice Management. This innovative module draws on the expertise of both academics and practitioners to analyse issues of management across a range of criminal justice institutions.
Students must then choose a fourth module from a range of courses offered within the Glasgow Graduate School of Law, and complete a dissertation.
The teaching team draws on the combined strengths of several departments from both Strathclyde and Glasgow Universities. All the teaching staff are actively engaged in criminal justice research and between them have an unrivalled range of experience and expertise in areas such as crime prevention, white collar crime, gender and criminal justice, social work with offenders, criminal law and process, penology and sentencing. The team also draws on the resources of the recently established Scottish Centre for Criminal Justice Research and the Centre for Sentencing Research based at Strathclyde University. The programme seeks to combine the development of an academic and theoretical awareness with a responsiveness to the interests and professional needs of the student, making the course useful both to recent graduates of related disciplines and to criminal justice practitioners who want to improve their skills and knowledge.