Edge Hill University, BA (Hons), Childhood and Youth Studies and Criminology

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.