Criminology and Criminal Justice 

0:08 Hi my name is Dr Lorraine Barron and I'm a lecturer in Criminal Law and Criminal Justice

0:05 at Bangor University. When you're studying criminology and criminal law at Bangor you'll

0:09 get to explore criminal personalities and then you'll be able to see exactly what it is that

0:14 makes somebody a criminal or not so basically we'll be looking at is somebody born a criminal

0:19 or do we become criminal from the the outside environment and society that we're exposed

0:25 to as we're growing up. It's quite fun if you're sitting down with your family watching Jeffrey Dahmer

0:32 drama series or the news about serial killers then you can you know show off your knowledge that you've gained from

0:37 studying criminology and criminal law. I think one of the best things about teaching at Bangor University is the friendly environment because

0:47 it's a smaller University the staff have a lot more one-on-one student time so therefore we

0:54 have a lot more time to give to any matters that you have maybe pastoral or academic

1:00 issues that you have outside of academia and studying. Banger University is situated

1:06 just outside the Snowdonia range so if you want to take a break from your studies and get some

1:12 you know emotional well-being and physical well-being we're located very close to the

1:16 coast so if you prefer a walk on the beach or a coast day that's also a good really good

1:21 way to to unwind um and then you know prepare yourself for another week back at University.

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My name is Lisa Suzanne Sparkes. I'm a lecturer in Criminology and Criminal Justice here at Bangor University.

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So at the moment I'm involved in the introduction to criminology, where we look at the theoretical elements around defending.

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We also look at the sociological elements of offending and the influences of our community and society.

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Then I move on to the more interesting stuff for me, which is where I start to talk about things like torture.

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Can we justify torture in the use of finding that information to stop criminality?

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I also look at the re-offending rehabilitation and then we move on to punishment.

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And we do have that discussion around the death penalty.

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And that's where we pull the international arguments in. Does death penalty act as a deterrent to criminality?

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Criminology and criminal justice isn't just around crime and the criminal justice system.

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This is a very broad topic where you get to learn about different things.

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So one of the things that I'm really interested in is female gangs in the UK.

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One of the other topics that I really found interesting in my first year as a student was police culture and the effects of policing on society.

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So it isn't a one size fits all.

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It is a very broad area, and various topics are pulled in using different authors and different researchers within Bangor University.

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It is a very beautiful building. The architecture history behind this building within the School of History, Law and Social Sciences,

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we have a very strong community feel and that is develop through events, social events, employability events.

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We have murder days, various things that fit within criminal justice, but we also look at what happens after you graduate.

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So it's all about that community and all the organisations that we can pull in to make your experience that little bit better.

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However, outside the university, you have the mountains on one side, the sea on the other.

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Whether you like paddleboarding, kayaking, water sports, coasteering all the different things that you can do.

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But if you're a bit like me and just like to relax, you can take a really nice picnic up to campus and just watch the world go by.

0:00 My name is Dr Tim Holmes, I'm a senior lecturer in criminology and policing and subject lead for

0:05 criminology and policing at Bangor University. I teach on the criminology program around cyber

0:11 crime and organized crime and in relation to policing I teach around the theory of criminal

0:18 behavior and digital policing. The main things that are interesting in the areas of criminology

0:24 I teach is the real diversity of topics that we get to cover when we look at cyber crime,

0:30 we're looking at all those different areas of the internet and how people can exploit people

0:34 through fraud through deception through online hacking and then when we come to the discussion

0:40 of terrorism and organized crime we're really looking at those distinct groups of people

0:45 who have organize their criminality to exploit people around the world and in many different

0:50 ways. The important thing with criminology is that it offers us an insight into the real fundamental questions

0:56 of right and wrong but also whilst acknowledge in the complex world that we live in.

1:01 A criminology student is really a jack of many trades we have to understand all of

1:07 these different issues education, health, mental health, poverty, international relations and

1:15 we filter this all through the lens of crime and Crime Control. Through this we have a real

1:20 distinct focus in our degree whilst opening you up to a lot of different areas for discussion and debate.

1:24 The great thing about being a Bangor is the people, I've taught a Bangor for a while

1:30 and there's a saying that if you're the smartest person in the room you're in the wrong room and

1:35 I'm really lucky at Bangor that I'm always in the right room. I'm surrounded by great

1:39 colleagues with real expertise in a very diverse range of areas of criminology. I've got expertise

1:44 in undercover policing, in crime and media, in the probation service, in the Police Service, all these

1:50 different experts bringing their work to bear in helping us teach students around really diverse

1:56 topics within criminology. The reason I teach at Bangor it's a really nice environment to learn in.