Criminology and Criminal Justice

The School provides a stimulating and supportive environment for postgraduate training. The emphasis is on small groups, close working relationships between students and supervisors, and development towards full professional participation in the subject area. Research in Criminology and Criminal Justice at Bangor is focussed on comparative study at a number of cross-cultural levels: national, international and rural-urban comparisons are three of the most important ways in which comparative criminological work is undertaken.

For research students we are able to provide both a full research training programme and high quality expert supervision across a broad spectrum of subjects. Research Areas Criminology and Criminal Justice with specialisations in: Youth homelessness and crime Institutional child abuse Critical approaches to law, crime and criminology Sociology of Law Public opinion on crime and criminal justice Penal policy Rural criminology Law judges and jurors Procedural justice Popular legal culture, including film and TV Victimology Islamic extremism and terrorism Trust in police, courts and the legal profession Crime and Civic Society: Support for the police Political violence and terrorism Media and public opinion Begging in North Africa and South Asia Popular Legal Culture Violence in intimate relationship Rural criminology Postcolonial societies, crime and deviance Theoretical criminology Criminal Justice Systems Lay participation in the administration of justice Current graduate students are conducting research on: Women’s accounts of their violent behaviour An ethnographic study of cannabis use in a North Wales community Identity fraud Social problems and juvenile delinquency in Malawi Restorative justice and rehabilitation Accommodating sex offenders after prison Programme Length PhD: 3 years full-time, 6 years part-time; MPhil: 1 to 2 years full-time, 2 to 3 years part-time; MARes: 1 year full-time, 2 years part-time.