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Every module below is extracted from the Master's in Criminology Pre-Course Guide. Each one costs €5.99, or take all 16 in the Full Guide for €19.99.
Foundations of Criminology
What criminology actually studies, where it came from, and how societies decide that some behaviour is "criminal" at all.
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44 pages
Criminological Theory
Sixteen theories, from the Classical school to critical criminology, each explained through what it claims, who it's attributed to, and where it breaks down.
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54 pages
Antisocial & Criminal Behaviour
Why some people offend and others don't: risk and protective factors, development over the life course, and desistance.
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44 pages
Victimology
The study of victimisation — who is affected, how, and why so much of it never reaches official statistics at all.
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44 pages
Criminal Law & Criminal Procedure
The legal vocabulary a criminologist needs without becoming a lawyer: offence, responsibility, procedure, evidence and sentencing.
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44 pages
Governance, Control & Normativities
How societies enforce norms formally and informally, and the institutions — police, courts, prisons — built to do it.
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44 pages
Security & Criminal Policies
How crime policy and public security strategy actually get made, tested and (sometimes) evaluated.
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46 pages
Crime Prevention
Social, situational and community approaches to stopping crime before it happens, and what distinguishes prevention from control.
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44 pages
Specialised Crime
A criminological lens on economic, organised, cyber, violent, property, drug-related, juvenile and transnational crime.
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52 pages
Clinical Criminology & Recidivism
Risk assessment, rehabilitation and the ethical line between prediction and certainty.
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48 pages
Criminological Intervention & Justice
Prisons, probation, reintegration and restorative justice as real, practised responses to crime.
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46 pages
Research Methods & Epistemology
How criminological knowledge is actually produced, and how to read a research paper like a critical scholar, not a passive reader.
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56 pages
Crime Data & Statistics
Rates, trends, the dark figure of crime, and enough statistical literacy to read a finding without being misled by it.
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42 pages
Academic Skills for Criminology
Reading, writing and arguing at Master's level, built specifically around criminological sources.
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38 pages
The Master's Experience
What seminars, assessments and independent research genuinely feel like once term starts.
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28 pages
Your First 30 Days
A practical, week-by-week preparation plan for the month before class begins.
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24 pages
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All 16 modules, plus case studies, glossary, diagrams and exercises —755 pages for €19.99.
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