Bachelor of Arts - Criminology with Psychology (Honours)

BA (Hons) Criminology with Psychology leads with the justice discipline — criminological theory, institutions, victimology and penal policy carry the credit majority — while a psychology strand adds the behavioural sciences most relevant to crime: development and risk, mental health in justice populations, and the psychology of offending and desistance.

The construction suits a precise applicant: someone whose destination is the justice and community-safety workforce and who wants behavioural literacy for that work — interviewing, intervention, risk conversation — without needing psychology’s full laboratory-and-statistics apparatus, a difference from the psychology-led combinations that this sheet’s counselling notes make deliberately explicit.

Placement-style volunteering carries particular weight for this pairing’s target roles: intervention programmes and secure services recruit on demonstrated comfort with challenging populations, something no module can certify, and Leicester’s rehabilitation charities and appropriate-adult schemes offer supervised routes to exactly that evidence — opportunities the course team signposts each autumn at the standard £16,800 fee, and which convert into the referee relationships that justice-sector applications quietly depend on.

Teaching draws both departments’ strengths — justice case studies annotated with behavioural evidence, intervention design assessed against desistance research — and dissertation topics typically examine offending, rehabilitation programmes or institutional cultures with a psychological lens applied to criminological questions.

Employment tracks the criminology mainstream — intervention, community safety, victim services, analysis — at £20,000–£24,000, with the behavioural strand a genuine differentiator in intervention-programme recruitment. On completing the honours degree, graduates hold Graduate Route eligibility for 18 months under the post-January-2027 settlement, dependants excluded on taught routes throughout.