Hello everyone.
My name is Michael McCahill, I am a Senior Lecturer in Criminology.
I've been at the University for 32 years, and I'm here to talk to you
about the BA Criminology at Hull.
Now, like all of our programmes, the BA Criminology at Hull is taught
by a team of internationally recognised academics
who draw upon their own research to look at definitions of crime,
patterns of crime, causes of crime, and responses to crime.
But I think what's unique about this particular program, the BA Criminology,
is it allows you to focus exclusively on a single disciplinary area.
This means that in years one, two and three, every single module
you take will focus on a criminology related topic.
But why study Criminology at Hull?
We would suggest there are three reasons.
Firstly, we have a long, proud history.
In fact, in 2022 we celebrated our 50th anniversary
because we've been teaching Criminology at Hull for 50 years.
Secondly, because of this long, proud history, we've got lots of contacts
with practitioners in the community, including police officers.
This has allowed us to introduce new innovative modules,
including the Criminal Justice Placement module.
Here, you spend ten or eleven weeks in the community shadowing police officers
as they go about their work.
Then back on campus,
we ask you to compare the theory of policing that you've learned with us
in the classroom
and the practice of policing that you've observed on the street.
Thirdly, if criminology is sometimes described as a rendezvous discipline
that brings academics together
from various disciplinary areas, we have all the bases covered.
We have staff with expertise in new forms of crime,
whether it's corporate crime, green criminology, cyber
crime, transnational organised crime, and lots more.
We also have staff with expertise in the reaction to crime, harm reduction,
victimology, surveillance, artificial intelligence and policing,
intelligence studies, histories of prisons and restorative justice.
This, of course, is very important for you because it means in your final year
you have a wide range of optional modules to choose from.
So that's the BA Criminology at Hull.
Thanks for listening.
Hope to see you on the campus in the not too distant future.
Bye for now.