Courses & Careers

If you decide to go to university, you will need to look at a prospectus to help you decide what course to study. Read our introduction first and then take a look at some of the courses below to find out more about what it’s like to study at university, and what jobs/careers students do afterwards!

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Criminology

FACULTY: Humanities and Social Sciences
DURATION: 3 years
A LEVELS: You don’t need any specific A Levels, but Sociology, Psychology and Law might be helpful!
CAREERS: Police, Prison Officers, Refugee Worker, Youth Worker, Charities
HOOD COLOUR: Purple

This is a subject you might not have heard of before! Criminology is the study of criminal behaviour and criminologists play an important role in the Criminal Justice System. They look at why people commit crimes and how we can try to prevent them from happening. They will look at how people are punished and how the prison system works as well as ethics (whether something is right or wrong).

Criminology is a very interesting subject with lots of opportunities to specialise such as youth justice, corporate (business) crime and victim rights. If you like murder mystery stories, solving crimes or helping people, criminology might be the right course for you.

Listen to our Criminology student Scarlet below, to find out more about being a Criminology student at the University of Liverpool!