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LLB Law with Criminology
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UCAS code
M190 -
A level offer
AAB -
Year of entry
2025/26 -
Course duration
Full Time: 3 Years
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Year of entry
2025/26 -
Course duration
Full Time: 3 Years
Gain the knowledge and skills to pursue a career in law, while exploring concepts of crime and justice, with our LLB Law with Criminology degree.
Choose LLB Law with Criminology at the University of Reading
- Our LLB courses are accredited by the Solicitors Regulation Authority and the Bar Standards Board, providing you with the first qualification for entry into the legal profession.
- 99% of our research is of international standing (Research Excellence Framework 2021, combining 4*, 3* and 2* submissions – Law).
- 90% of our students said that teaching staff were good or very good at explaining things (National Student Survey 2023, 90% of respondents studying in the School of Law).
What you'll study
Taught by experts in the School of Law, our LLB Law with Criminology degree enables you to understand the law in the context of criminal justice and criminological practice.
You'll engage with contemporary issues such as social injustice, while developing a critical understanding of the English legal system.
You will gain the legal expertise to practice in areas such as criminal law, public law, and equity and trusts. By combining law and criminology, you'll also explore wider national and global questions such as:
- what is crime?
- what is justice?
- is rule-breaking governed by human nature or influenced by the wider social context?
In your first year, you’ll focus on four key areas of English law – contract, tort, criminal and public law – and practise applying the law to hypothetical scenarios. You’ll also explore the core concepts of criminal justice.
In your second year of study, you will expand your knowledge of law and explore the central theories of criminology. Your modules will cover topics such as:
- EU law
- equity and trusts
- land law
- women, crime and justice
- criminological research methods.
Your final year will feature a law dissertation, along with the opportunity to study law and criminology in greater depth. We offer a range of optional modules, including:
- Gender and Law
- Contemporary Issues in Punishment
- Race, Ethnicity and Justice
- Prisons in Crisis.
Learn from legal experts
Join the University of Reading’s School of Law, where you’ll enjoy a global community and benefit from the expertise and practice of established legal scholars.
You’ll be taught by experts specialising in a range of areas, including:
- criminal law
- commercial law and contract law
- international law.
Our experts actively shape law and policy, regularly contributing to international and UK policy development and law reforms.
Professional practice and community impact
You’ll have the opportunity to take part in client interviewing, negotiation and mooting competitions during your degree, with work experience placements offered as prizes.
The School of Law also hosts one of the largest pro bono programmes in the UK, giving you the chance to work with charities and organisations on a voluntary basis.
We work on a diverse range of projects, with organisations such as:
- Citizens Advice
- Thames Valley Police
- Resolve Mediation
- Streetlaw
- Access to Law
- Amicus
- Launchpad
- Reading Community Court.
Along with co-curricular activities, these projects will give you the chance to promote justice and have a direct impact on the local community.
Study with leading criminologists
Your criminology studies will address the challenges facing twenty-first-century democracies, especially the link between criminal and social justice.
Criminology at Reading is taught by academics whose work has influenced criminal justice policies in the UK and overseas. Our academics have also contributed to law and criminal justice reforms, through their work with governments and agencies such as the Law Commission and the United Nations.