Applied A Level Criminology (DACA)

Course summary

You will study crimes, criminals, crime victims, theories explaining illegal and/or deviant behaviour, the social reaction to crime, the effectiveness of anti-crime policies and the broader political terrain of social control. You will look at what happens in police stations and courts, behind prison bars, in board rooms, and on battlefields. You will study famous case studies of many different criminals from around the globe and as criminologists you willlook at the broader contexts of the criminals behaviour and try to work out reasons why they have committed the crime — the good, the bad and the ugly.