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Criminal Law and Criminal Justice at University of Sussex - UCAS

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2023 - 20242024 - 2025
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Course summary

Criminal law and criminal justice lie at the heart of questions around how we as a society respond to crime. On this course, you’ll engage in advanced criminal law theory, as well as criminological theory to examine how societies can better understand and respond to crime. The LLM draws on expertise from the Department of Sociology, helping you develop an interdisciplinary perspective. You’ll be taught by lecturers whose research shapes the fields of:

  • criminal law theory
  • comparative criminal justice
  • terrorism and international crimes
  • financial crimes
  • human rights and criminal justice
  • hate crime
  • sexual offending
  • policing and restorative justice.
  • The course content reflects their latest insight and research.
Throughout your studies, you’ll have the opportunity to network with professionals, practitioners and activists from around the world. The global perspective you’ll gain will help you formulate critical responses to legal issues. These networks will also be valuable after you graduate.

Modules

Core modules are taken by all students on the course. They give you a solid grounding in your chosen subject and prepare you to explore the topics that interest you most.

  • Advanced Legal Research and Writing
  • Criminology in Theory and Method
  • Issues in Criminal Law and Criminal Justice
  • Spring and summer teaching
  • LLM Dissertation
Options Alongside your core modules, you can choose options to broaden your horizons and tailor your course to your interests. This list gives you a flavour of our options, which are kept under review and may change, for example in response to student feedback or the latest research. While it’s our aim for students to take their preferred combinations of options, this can’t be guaranteed and will be subject to timetabling. Options may be grouped and if so, students will be able to choose a set number of options from the selection available in any particular group.
  • Corruption and the Law
  • Economic Crime
  • Hate Crime and Sexual Violence
  • Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery
  • International and Transnational Offending
  • International Crimes
  • Restorative Justice: Domestic and International Approaches
  • Terrorism and the Internet
We regularly review our modules to incorporate student feedback, staff expertise, as well as the latest research and teaching methodology. We’re planning to run these modules in the academic year 2023/24. However, there may be changes to these modules in response to COVID-19, staff availability, student demand or updates to our curriculum. We’ll make sure to let our applicants know of material changes to modules at the earliest opportunity. We’ll do our best to provide as much optional choice as we can, but timetabling constraints mean it may not be possible to take some module combinations. The structure of a small number of courses means that the order of modules or the streams you choose may determine whether modules are core or optional. This means that your core modules or options may differ from what’s shown below.

Assessment method

Modules are assessed by a combination of coursework, unseen examinations, 4,000-5,000-word essays, and a 15,000-word dissertation.

Entry requirements

You should normally have an upper second-class (2.1) undergraduate honours degree or above. Your qualification should be in law or a relevant subject such as economics, finance, international relations, political science, history, criminology, criminal justice or sociology. You may also be considered for the course if you have other professional qualifications or experience of equivalent standing.

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Criminal Law and Criminal Justice at University of Sussex - UCAS