Criminology with Psychology

=10th in the UK for Psychology (ShanghaiRanking Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2023)

9th in the UK for Social Sciences (The Times Higher Education World University Rankings by Subject 2024)

=18th in the UK for Psychology (QS World University Rankings by Subject 2024)

About the course
Crime, its manifestations, causes and consequences are a concern worldwide. There’s a global need for real-world understanding of crime, criminals and punishment.

On this course, you’ll explore crime and deviance from an interdisciplinary perspective, combining criminological and psychological perspectives. You’ll study:

- the wider social and structural issues associated with crime

- the ‘inner’ psychological workings of people.

In your final-year project, you’ll learn to formulate criminological and/or psychological questions, plan how to answer them and conduct your own research.

Our research underpins our teaching. You’ll learn from faculty actively involved in research into areas including:

- (violent) extremism, online extremism/terrorism and counter-terrorism policy

- hate crime policy, gender/disability and victimisation

- women who kill, gender and crime, race and crime

- capital punishment, cultural and historical criminology.

As a graduate, you’ll have critical thinking, research methods (for example, interviews and document analysis) and quantitative methods (for example, large survey design) skills for a wide range of careers.

About Sussex

Our courses, research, culture and campus aim to stimulate, excite and challenge. From scientific discovery to global policy, from student welfare to career development, Sussex innovates and takes a lead. And today, in every part of society and across the world, you'll find someone from Sussex making an original and valuable contribution.

Location

Study on our beautiful, green campus on the edge of the South Downs National Park and just minutes from the vibrant seaside city of Brighton & Hove. We’re near to Gatwick airport and just over an hour from London.