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After completing his undergraduate and postgraduate studies at the University of Essex, Chris began working as a civil servant. He regularly returns to the Department to talk about the work he now undertakes within the Civil Service.


I loved how the University felt like a tight community. Essex has a relatively small student population so you are


constantly recognising faces. Settling in was very easy, both academically and socially, as Freshers’ Week really helped new students feel at home.


Chris Beaton, BA History and Criminology ’07, MA Criminology and Sociology ’08, Teddington, Middlesex


Graduate Profile


practical research skills that allow you to design, conduct and evaluate interviews, surveys and focus groups, and to work with basic criminal statistics and quantitative data.


You will take four modules in your first year, including Crime, Law and Society which introduces the criminal justice system and its connections with wider social issues. You may also take Sociology and the Modern World, which gives an overview of key social theorists and their different takes on the forces shaping modern social life, and/or Researching Social Life, which covers key research methods. In most cases, the remaining module(s) will reflect the focus of your particular criminology course area.


Typical second- and


third-year modules These modules are available to all students across all our criminology courses: Punishment, Justice and Modernity; Globalisation and Crime; Policing and Criminal Justice; Sociology of Crime and Control; Crime, Media


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The Department was great; the common room was a friendly and relaxed area; the perfect environment to discuss work, chat with friends or just read a paper. I enjoyed the contemporary criminology modules which often focused on real-life experiences, making the content


enjoyable and interesting. The lecturers were very welcoming and happy to offer advice on both academic and personal levels making the transition from school to university much easier.


It was also encouraging to know that these people were at the top of their field. Although my course is not directly relevant to my work in the Civil Service, I believe that I am always able to make use of the skills and experiences my course has taught me. It has really helped me secure a good job and be successful at it.


My final year was my favourite time at the University. I had the best student house, the best group of friends and it was just an amazing year.


and Culture; Crime, Policy and Social Justice. For a list of sociology modules, see page 207.


How will I be assessed? We aim to assess your subject knowledge but also the practical and critical skills you have developed. Written work can take the form of essays, reports, evaluations, basic statistical analysis, short tests and exams. However, we also value verbal and observational work. For example, students taking our module Crime, Policy and Social Justice, observe local community safety projects and then share their evaluations of these at a mini-conference where they can gain feedback from local community managers, as well as from academic staff.


All students complete a project in their third year which can open further opportunities for those wishing to develop a working contact with criminal justice or community agencies. Recent topics have included investigations into the workings of ASBOs at local level, media representations of terrorism and teenagers’ perceptions of knife-crime.


Career opportunities Careers linked to criminology are very varied. Our courses provide an excellent training for work within the criminal justice system, for example, as community safety officers, risk assessors, court managers, researchers, paralegals, police officers, probation officers and youth workers.


Some students opt for specialist postgraduate programmes linked to law, teaching, journalism, social work, counselling or academic research (here we offer our own Masters and PhD opportunities in criminology and related disciplines such as sociology, human rights and psychoanalytic studies).


Other students have moved into journalism or professional positions within the voluntary sector such as fund-raisers and project managers. Our staff’s links with many of these organisations can help our students to network effectively at local, national and international level.


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