About Criminology And Criminal Justice Phd/mphil in Bangor University

The School of Social Sciences provides a stimulating and supportive environment for postgraduate training. The emphasis is on small groups, close working relationships between students and supervisors, and development towards full professional participation in the subject area. Research in Criminology and Criminal Justice at Bangor is focussed on comparative study at a number of cross-cultural levels: national, international and rural-urban comparisons are three of the most important ways in which comparative criminological work is undertaken. For research students we are able to provide both a full research training programme and high quality expert supervision across a broad spectrum of subjects.

Research Areas

Criminology and Criminal Justice with specialisations in:

• Youth homelessness and crime
• Institutional child abuse
• Critical approaches to law, crime and criminology
• Sociology of Law
• Public opinion on crime and criminal justice
• Penal policy
• Rural criminology
• Law judges and jurors
• Procedural justice
• Popular legal culture, including film and TV
• Victimology
• Islamic extremism and terrorism
• Trust in police, courts and the legal profession
• Crime and Civic Society:
• Support for the police
• Political violence and terrorism
• Media and public opinion
• Begging in North Africa and South Asia
• Popular Legal Culture
• Violence in intimate relationship
• Rural criminology
• Postcolonial societies, crime and deviance
• Theoretical criminology
• Criminal Justice Systems
• Lay participation in the administration of justice

Current graduate students are conducting research on:

• Women’s accounts of their violent behaviour
• An ethnographic study of cannabis use in a North Wales community
• Identity fraud
• Social problems and juvenile delinquency in Malawi
• Restorative justice and rehabilitation
• Accommodating sex offenders after prison

Academic qualification equivalents

• Good grades in Bachelor degree and a Masters degree. Previous research experience is essential.

English language requirements (one of the below):

• IELTS: Academic 6.0 or 6.5 This must include a minimum of 5.5 in Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing.
• PTE: 56 (51) - 62(58).

Bangor University Highlights

Bangor University Cost of Attendance

Bangor University Tuition Fee

Fee for the available programs varies for different courses as per their level and type. Tuition fee for some of the popular courses has been compiled as follows:

Undergraduate Courses

Graduate Courses (2020 intake)

Cost of living

International students are highly advised to have an idea of the expenses required to survive in a foreign land. While it is difficult to reveal an exact amount required, a rough estimated amount required for accommodation, travel and stay for aspirants looking to study in the UK is around 900 to 1100 GBP, per month for a single student living in Bangor. 

A detailed list of expenses would look something like as has been tabulated below: