Criminology MA: Research areas

Research expertise within the fields of Criminology and Sociology at Kingston covers a wide variety of topics including:

• consumer culture;
• criminal justice;
• dangerous offenders;
• discourse and conversation analysis;
• domestic abuse;
• ethics of criminological research;
• gender and sexuality;
• hate crime;
• identities and social change;
• intimate and sexual citizenship;
• legitimacy of punishment;
• medical policy;
• mental health policy and practice;
• policing;
• probation and criminal justice policy making;
• religion
• sex crime;
• social inequalities;
• surveillance society;
• trauma and abuse;
• urban spaces;
• victimisation;
• women, gender and violence;
• young offenders; and
• youth.

This course has links with the Centre for Abuse and Trauma Studies (CATS) and its applied research on areas including victim and perpetrator perspectives of child abuse as well as internet abuse and legal perspectives.