Criminologists engage with some of the most pressing issues, decisions and dilemmas facing societies today. In this University of Essex course students explore the nature of crime, criminal justice and punishment within wider social contexts.

Criminology at Essex builds on strong sociological foundations and reflects the diversity of staff interests, including leading contributors to studies of women, young people and criminal justice, prostitution, homicide, victimization, visual criminology and media, organized crime and law enforcement, terrorism and surveillance, environmental crime and more. Essex’s courses provide critical, conceptual and theoretical analyses of crimes and harms, from the local to the global.