Colleges and Universities Offering Master of Criminology in Ireland

Institutions Offering Master of Criminology

•  University College Cork, Cork  
  Duration: 1 year full-time; 2 years part-time
  
  Course Outline:
  Our MA in Criminology examines a broad range of theoretical and applied approaches to understanding crime: social deviance, morality, anti-social behaviour, social regulation, legislation, criminal law, justice, prevention, rehabilitation and punishment as social phenomena and as objects of social policy, and delivers a basic competence to carry out research in the field. This programme is interdisciplinary in tone and character and organized by the Schools of Sociology, Philosophy, Law, and Applied Social Studies.
  Course content
  This MA programme is offered on a full-time basis running over 12 months or on a part-time basis running over 24 months. The 90-credit programme has three compulsory modules plus four additional modules as follows:
  Core modules:
  • CR6012 Key issues in Criminology (10 credits)
  • CR6010 Research design and methods (10 credits)
  • CR6006 Dissertation on Criminology (30 credits)
  Four modules are chosen from the following options. Students must choose at least one Law (LW) module AND at least one Criminology (CR) module AND at least one Applied Social Studies (SS) module.
  • CR6000 Governmentality: Disciplines, Institutions and Critiques (10 credits)
  • CR6001 Terrorism and Organized Crime (10 credits)
  • LW6544 Criminology (10 credits)
  • LW6545 Penology (10 credits)
  • LW6546 Juvenile Justice (10 credits)
  • LW6560 Law of Cybercrime (10 credits)
  • SC6627 Social Pathology, Civic Health, New Technology (10 credits)
  • SC6638 Rethinking Borders: Sovereignty, Rights and Justice (10 credits)
  • SC6639 Feminist Epistemologies: Feminisms, Sexuality and Society (10 credits)
  • SC6641 Gender and Catastrophe (10 credits)
  • SC6642 Social Theory and Climate Justice (10 credits)
  • SS6315 Mental Health and Disability (10 credits)
  • SS6316 Children and Young People (10 credits)
  • SS6320 Conflict Transformation and Peace Building (10 credits)
  
  PART-TIME
  Year 1 - Part I
  Core modules:
  • CR6010 Research Design and Methods (10 credits)
  CR6012 Key Issues in Criminology (10 credits)
  plus modules to the value of 20 credits from the optional* modules listed below:
  *Students must, across both years of part-time study, take at least one Law (LW) module AND at least one Criminology (CR) module AND at least one Applied Social Studies (SS) module from the list of optional modules.
  • CR6000 Governmentality: Disciplines, Institutions, and Critiques (10 credits)
  • CR6001 Terrorism and Organized Crime (10 credits)
  • LW6544 Criminology (10 credits)
  • LW6545 Penology (10 credits)
  • LW6546 Juvenile Justice (10 credits)
  • LW6560 Law of Cybercrime (10 credits)
  • SC6627 Social Pathology, Civic Health, New Technology (10 credits)
  • SC6638 Rethinking Borders: Sovereignty, Rights and Justice (10 credits)
  • SC6639 Feminist Epistemologies: Feminisms, Sexuality and Society (10 credits)
  • SC6641 Gender and Catastrophe (10 credits)
  • SC6642 Social Theory and Climate Justice (10 credits)
  • SS6315 Mental Health and Disability (10 credits)
  • SS6316 Children and Young People (10 credits)
  • SS6320 Conflict Transformation and Peace Building (10 credits)
  Year 2
  In Year 2, students select two optional 10-credit modules (not previously taken in Year 1). Students must, across both years of part-time study, take at least one Law (LW) module AND at least one Criminology (CR) module AND at least one Applied Social Studies (SS) module from the list of optional modules.
  Part II
  • CR6006 Dissertation on Criminology (30 credits)
•  Technological University Dublin, Dublin  
  Duration: 2 years

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