Program Overview

Impatient to deepen your political understanding? Our BA Politics with Criminology will allow you to study a wide variety of topics, from questions of power, representation, and distributional justice in democracies, the political underpinnings of economic development in countries of the Global South, to international phenomena such as migration, trade and conflict. At the same time you will acquire knowledge of the criminal justice system in Britain, explore foundational criminological ideas, and be able to learn about current debates in crime and control.

This course will provide you with analytic skills to understand a variety of political actors; including social movements, political parties, governments, and non-government organizations. Alongside this criminology gives you insights into the workings of the criminal justice system.

Areas that you can expect to explore include, but are not limited to:

• Concepts in political science: state, laws, wars and political parties
• International relations
• Democratic systems and political power
• Theories of crime and control
• Gender, ethnicity, and global dimensions of crime and control
• International state crime and human rights

Study abroad

Your education extends beyond the university campus. We support you in expanding your education through offering the opportunity to spend a year or a term studying abroad at one of our partner universities. The four-year version of our degree allows you to spend the third year abroad or employed on a placement abroad, while otherwise remaining identical to the three-year course.

Studying abroad allows you to experience other cultures and languages, to broaden your degree socially and academically, and to demonstrate to employers that you are mature, adaptable, and organised.

If you spend a full year abroad you'll only pay 15% of your usual tuition fee to Essex for that year. You won't pay any tuition fees to your host university