In recent years, issues of terrorism and organized crime have gained an unprecedented profile, provoked significant social concern, and dominated both law-and-order and many wider social policy agendas. Essex draws on state-of-the-art research to address key critical issues surrounding organized criminality and terrorism in contemporary society. University of Essex involves multi-level analyses of organized crime as a concept, alongside the impacts of urbanization, migration and globalization upon both the practice of crime and the ways in which humans understand them. Students address cutting-edge critical, conceptual and theoretical analyses of terrorism and counter-terrorism.