Childhood and youth studies Modules may include: International perspectives on children and families; youth transitions; safeguarding children youth services; practice/work experience; youth and community work; addiction studies; issues for professional practice; sociology of youth culture; child development; the social child; regulation and criminalisation of childhood; law and social policy for children and youth; education and childhood; educational psychology; social work with children and families. Criminology Year 1: the student studies one or more of four core subjects; these are: understanding crime and conflict; introduction to criminal justice; conflict and change in the Twentieth Century; generating criminological knowledge; at the end of year 1 the student has the opportunity to adjust their pathway, to include more, or less, criminology in relation to other subjects. Year 2: the student studies a range of core and elective modules; these introduce the student to subjects as diverse as: the media; drugs; children as criminals and victims; political corruption; criminal law. Year 3: the student again has the chance to study a combination of core and elective modules which may include: the politics of imprisonment; violence; policies to manage conflict and change; human rights; the role of evidence in criminal courts.
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This is a joint Honours scheme which allows the student to combine the 2 subjects, with approximately 50% of modules coming from each subject; the childhood and youth studies course is designed for anyone who wants a career involving children and young people; the course allows the student to study the development of children and young people alongside society's understanding of, and reaction to, them; drawing on a variety of disciplines, including sociology, education, psychology, social policy, and health, the student is able to fully explore the social and developmental contexts of childhood and youth from early years through to childhood and adolescence; the criminology course is suitable for students with an interest in the causes and contexts for crime, deviance and disorder in society, how the law is constructed, enforced and administered, and the role of the media in public perceptions of crime and conflict; the course explores the background to, and recent developments in, criminology, social justice and human rights; focusing on the police, imprisonment, youth justice and the courts, the student examines the significance of social class, gender, sexuality and race in the provision of justice and rights.
