Law with Criminology
Law with criminology is a degree that combines the study of legal rules, institutions, and reasoning with the social scientific analysis of crime, deviance, and the formal and informal responses societies make to them. Law is concerned with what the rules are, how they are interpreted, and how they are enforced through courts, tribunals, and other institutions. Criminology asks broader and sometimes more critical questions: why do some acts and people become defined as criminal?
How is crime distributed across society? What drives offending? What do prisons, policing, and other criminal justice institutions actually achieve?
Together, the two disciplines give you a richer and more critical understanding of the criminal justice system than either would offer alone.
At Middlesex University, this part-time programme is designed to prepare you for a career in criminal justice and law, developing both the academic skills needed to become a qualified solicitor or barrister and the broader analytical understanding of how crime and the law intersect in society. You will study the core areas of English law, including criminal law, alongside criminological theory, the sociology of crime, victimology, and the workings of the criminal justice system.
The part-time structure gives you flexibility to balance your studies with work, family commitments, or other responsibilities, making it accessible to students who cannot study full-time.
Graduates who wish to qualify as solicitors or barristers typically proceed to the relevant vocational training routes after their degree. Others move into probation, police service, community justice roles, social work, the voluntary sector, criminal justice research, and policy. The combination of legal knowledge and criminological understanding is particularly well suited to roles across the criminal justice system and in organisations concerned with crime prevention, rehabilitation, and justice reform.
Postgraduate study in law, criminology, or social work is also a common route.