BA (Hons) Criminal Justice with Foundation Year

This module provides you with the integrated skills required for academic success. You will develop your skills of creating posters, constructing bibliographies, and sourcing relevant materials. Alongside this you will learn to identify and understand academic writing and referencing techniques. The multi-disciplinary syllabus and assessment tasks will enable you to acquire the academic skills needed for successful transition into Level 4 and the completion of the degree.

This module provides you with the necessary skills to develop a research project on the Liverpool City region from your particular subject perspective. You will explain academic research methods, write a coherent piece of academic work based on an understanding of Liverpool, and locate relevant research to support your project. The module will help you to develop an independent approach to learning.

This module provides you with the opportunity to understand contemporary issues in security and policing. You will learn to identify contemporary themes in security and policing and how theory can help explain crime. Through your study you will understand the challenges to mainstream security and policing and develop the ability to express key ideas about security and policing in written form.

This module provides you with the opportunity to understand contemporary issues in Criminal Justice. It gives you a foundation-level knowledge of how Criminal Justice works in 21st-century England and Wales.

This module aims to raise your awareness of the different social factors which can impact on how crime is committed and against whom. The module also builds knowledge of the impact of social factors on crime, victimisation and criminal justice.

This module provides a sociological context for students to understand the key contemporary social issues affecting the UK.

This module aims to provide a critical discussion of the basic substantive criminal law (in terms of relevant case and statute law), but also aims to relate the substantive criminal law to its application in the criminal justice process in practice, as well as to its socio-legal context in wider society. You will be able to provide an understanding of the basic principles by which responsibility in the criminal law is assessed, and the socio-legal context underpinning these principle through lectures, workshops and online activity.

This module introduces you to the history of crime and crime control. It aims to provide you with the historical background essential for an understanding of contemporary criminal justice, and examines the historical context for current criminological debates. The module encourages you to begin to think critically about the history of crime and criminal justice and provides an introduction to historical sources and methodology, as well as an analysis of the background to contemporary debates.

The module aims to explore the criminal justice process in England and Wales. Students will learn about: police powers, including the power to stop and search; crime control and due process models of policing; sentencing and punishment.

This module will provide students with an understanding of historical and contemporary criminological theories, and highlight how these have shaped and influenced the modern day criminal justice system and responses to crime and deviance.

This module introduces students to the relationship between the media, the public and issues of criminal justice. It will demonstrate how the media influences 'common sense' assumptions and political decision making around crime and justice. It will also highlight the importance of 'the public' in the contemporary criminal justice sphere. Students will develop a fundamental understanding of the interactions and relationships that exist between the media, the public and issues of crime and justice.

In this module you will develop your academic skills in writing and critical analysis. The module will develop your awareness of sources of information that are presented using a variety of media. Through the development of team working skills you will also have an improved understanding of the court system in England and Wales.

The aim of this module is to provide students with the ability to develop self-awareness and identify skills to improve their employability in criminal justice and allied areas. Students will also gain an understanding of the relationship between theory, policy and the experience of practice in various criminal justice agencies.

This module will encourage students to critically reflect on the concepts of injustice and justice, inequality, poverty, power and powerlessness. Students will be encouraged to think about how these concepts impact on the experience of people processed through and experiencing the system of justice.

This module aims to develop students' skills in methods of producing reliable and effective knowledge relating to criminal justice, this includes:

• applying ethical principles to criminal justice research
• issues relating to the influence of research on criminal justice policy and practice
• barriers to effective knowledge production and transfer in relation to criminal justice

It provide students with an overview of the development of research and evaluation within criminal justice in the last 50 years, and why it is so important to understand the contexts and processes behind how knowledge transfers from one criminal justice community to another.

This module requires students to critically consider the innovative ways in which criminology theory is used today in the policy and practice of criminal justice. Students must demonstrate an ability to build upon existing knowledge of criminological theory developed through the core Criminological Theory module at level 4 and apply those understandings to contemporary criminal justice.

The syllabus includes:

• theories and theorising - agency and structure
• criminological theories, policies and practices - from classicism and positivism through to labelling and strain theory, and their relative influences on policy and practice
• expanding the criminological imagination
• critical criminology and critical criminologies - the influence of Marxism
• new directions in criminological theory - green criminology, ultra realism, zemiology, peace-making and convict criminologies

This is an additional year of full-time study at an approved higher education institution. The modules to be studied must be agreed in advance, and must be appropriate for the student's programme of study

The overall aim of this module is to develop a more meaningful understanding of victims of crime and to critically explore their role and experiences within the criminal justice system. Students will develop a critical appreciation of the conceptual development of victims and victimology as an academic discipline and also evaluate the notions of victimhood and explore challenges for victim service provision.

This module introduces students to the concepts of rehabilitation and desistance within the criminal justice system. It will consider the theory behind the concepts and their impact on policy and practice, regarding the Probation Service and Prison Service specifically and the criminal justice system more broadly.

Students will explore the relationship between rehabilitation. desistance, and risk assessment and management processes and practices. This includes: 

• making sense of rehabilitation and desistance - terminology and definitions
• history and the context of rehabilitation and desistance in the criminal justice system
• theories of rehabilitation 
• theories of desistance
• rehabilitation and desistance in the community
• rehabilitation and desistance in custody
• risk assessment and management - implications and impact
• barriers to effective rehabilitation and desistance 

This module allows you to pursue a more in-depth study of two of the main criminal justice institutions, Prison and Probation services. The design and delivery surrounding their administration has remained the subject of intense debate and controversy throughout their history. Therefore, you will be encouraged to critically engage with these debates taking into consideration the theory, policy, and practice which surrounds community and custodial interventions.

This module implements LJMU's employability strategy by delivering work-based learning to students which relates to their academic studies and their onward employability plan, thereby allowing them to develop examples of skills development and learning with a live employer-driven brief.

The aim of this module is to enable you to develop your learning and understanding of penology building on the Penology module at level 5. You will be given the opportunity to critically evaluate and consider contemporary issues in penology with a clear focus on the theory, policy and practice which surrounds community and custodial interventions.  Specific consideration will be given to the tensions, dilemmas and critiques which surround the delivery of interventions with those individuals who present complex needs.

The module gives students an understanding of contemporary policing methods, evaluating how the police service has attempted to respond to changes in society. In doing so the module examines the concept of a 'police service' borne out of the rejection of notions of a 'police force'. On completing the course students will have a broad knowledge of the general role of policing, and how the organisation links in with other agencies of the criminal justice system. The module provides students with a global understanding of contemporary policing in the 21st century, critically exploring the concepts of 'partnership', privatization, pluralisation, diversity and positions them all within the challenges presented by contemporary (global) socio-political contexts.

This module will provide students with a critical understanding of the position of youth in society today, the relationship between youth and crime, and the range of ways in which criminal justice responds to youth crime in England and Wales. It will provide students with knowledge of the past and current policy and legislation relating to young people. Students will have the opportunity to develop practice skills of assessing seriousness, suitability and risk assessment in relation to offences and sentences for young people, as well as oral presentation skills by preparing and completing the module's assessed presentation.

This module aims to provide students with a broad understanding of the sociocultural place of substance use. It will investigate different paradigms and perspectives on substance (mis)use and explore relevant drug policy. The module will also seek to provide a comprehension of how we practically respond to substance use via treatment interventions.This module attempts to critically deconstruct the role and place of substance use in contemporary society. Furthermore it will provide an analysis of the legitimacy of drug policy and the efficacy of interventions with substance (mis)users.

The dissertation module requires students to select a problem or issue within criminal justice, to locate this within existing literature, and to conduct independent research generating data which forms the basis of a written thesis. Students will be allocated an individual supervisor and support will be available throughout the process.

Within this module, students will be introduced to the area of governance, regulation and regulatory bodies in the context of non-conventional harm and victimisation. Students will also be able to critically investigate non-conventional harm and victimisation and explore and apply concepts such as regulation, accountability and justice.

The overall aim of this module is to examine the practices, policies, and philosophies of criminal justice in different cultural and geographical contexts and provide an overview of different types of criminal justice systems around the globe. This module will therefore provide a critical understanding of the development of alternative justice processes across the globe.

This module aims to raise student awareness of issues relating to the nature, extent and typology of environmental crime. The module also aims to stimulate critical evaluation of the current responses to environmental crime, and of green criminology's contributions to the debate about the most effective responses.

This module aims to develop advanced and theoretically-informed knowledge of the range of typologies of violence that exist in society, the nature and extent of different forms of violence, and the challenges of regulating violence

This module will enable students to think critically about the criminal courts in England and Wales - where they came from, how they operate, why they operate in the ways in which they do, and how they could be enabled to operate more fairly and justly in the future.

This module will allow students to develop a critical understanding of terror and terrorism, both in terms of its history, contemporary manifestations, and likely forward trajectory.  As a level 6 module it will allow students to build on their critical engagement with key concepts, legislation, regulation  and operational realities within the wider criminal justice system, both from UK specific and global perspectives.

This includes:

• the contested terrain of defining terror
• the intellectual traditions of terror and terrorism
• religiously and politically inspired terror  
• organisational models of terrorism
• state terror and terror by proxy
• psychology of terror (the terrorist)
• psychology of terror (the victims of terror)
• geo-politics of terror
• the economics of terror
• emerging technologies and terror
• responses to terror: attacking the causes, or liquidating terrorists and terrorist organisations?
• does the concept and laws regarding Human Rights have any purchase in the world of terror and counter terror?