Criminology isn't really one thing. It's
very much the crime end of a whole load
of other disciplines. It probably emerged
mostly out of psychology, trying to
understand human behavior and then
moving to try and understand sort of
deviant human behavior.
I think criminology is a popular topic
at the moment because people are
genuinely interested in trying to
understand offending behavior. They want
to know more about how the justice
system works and they want to be able to
experience it in a way that's real but
without having to be an actual victim of
crime themselves. I think the program we
have here is drawing on the inherently
interdisciplinary nature of what
criminology is but we make students
engage with psychology, research methods
forensic science units in addition to a
core of criminology studies so it very
much draws on the interdisciplinary past
of criminology and makes students have a
broad understanding of what's going on
in this space now.
