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This non-qualifying Law degree is ideal if you want to gain practical legal expertise while exploring crime, criminology, and criminal justice systems.
Our program is delivered by renowned researchers from Lancaster's prestigious Law School. You'll study key concepts in both Criminology and Law, discovering how these fields interconnect while building specialized and transferable skills. The interdisciplinary approach highlights the academic and professional relationships between these two disciplines.
Through examining social, cultural, political, and economic factors, you'll investigate crime's root causes, regulatory policies, and societal responses to criminal behavior. The curriculum leverages departmental strengths in areas like criminal law, human rights, cybercrime, policing, prison systems, gender violence, drug-related offenses, and more.
Lancaster University Law School ranks 6th nationally for research impact (REF 2021, published May 2022), with 88% of its work judged as outstanding.