Overview

The Criminology and Criminal Justice program offered by University College Dublin  has been the focus of debates in parliament, legislative and policy initiatives, and numerous reports in the media. Members of the Institute have engaged in major research projects including work on coercive confinement, recidivism and desistance, youth crime, policing, trial by jury, white collar crime, historical approaches to crime and punishment, restorative justice, victims, and penal policy. On this LLM the innovative teaching and small class sizes will allow you to develop strong analytical skills, and to hone your written and spoken critical insights. 

Key Facts

They strive for a learning environment that encourages students to work individually or as part of a team so you can develop your teamwork and communication skills, as well as skills of quantitative and qualitative analysis of the social phenomena associated with crime. This Masters will equip you with a number of key skills, including how to:

• Appreciate the strengths and limitations of key research methodologies.
• Demonstrate a detailed awareness of current controversies in criminology and criminal justice and knowledge of areas where the discipline is currently enjoying theoretical elaboration.
• Have the intellectual toolkit required to research and write a major dissertation.
• Integrate source material from a variety of disciplinary areas to reach reasoned decisions about the relative status of competing claims to knowledge.
• Unpack complex theoretical arguments and render  key disciplinary insights intelligible to a non-specialist audience.
• Use knowledge of debates within the discipline and different methodological approaches to interpret empirical research findings and to critique research designs.