Criminology - CRIMA13704
Stream Summary
Faculty: ARTSC - Faculty of Arts&Social Science
School: School of Social Sciences
Contact: Dr David Bright
Program: 3704 - Engineering / Arts
Award(s):
Bachelor of Arts (Major)
Information valid for students commencing 2013.
Students who commenced prior to 2013 should go to the Handbook's Previous Editions
Stream Outline
Aims
The major stream in Criminology aims to provide students with a critical and informed understanding of crime and justice issues in contemporary society. Using an interdisciplinary approach that integrates disciplinary knowledge from sociology, psychology, history, law and policy studies, the major stream provides a critical and theoretically informed understanding of crime and the justice system, criminal law and procedures, criminological research methods, as well as a range of current issues with respect to social control, juvenile justice, human rights, regulation, and penal policy.
The program aims are in line with the overall program aims of the BA:
• To develop an informed understanding of criminal offending, victimisation, criminalisation and crime control in contemporary society
• To teach the conceptual tools and research methods associated with criminology, which draws on both social sciences and humanities.
• To encourage the breadth of vision and critical thinking associated with interdisciplinary scholarship and research
• To enable students to place contemporary Australian criminal justice in an historical and comparative context
• To engage critically with fundamental questions about ethics, justice and human rights
• To develop the skills of critical, creative and imaginative thinking about society and its institutions
• To promote the techniques and value of reasoned and open-minded discussion and debate.
Stream Structure
- CRIM1010 Intro to Criminology (6 UOC)
- CRIM1011 Intro to Criminal Justice (6 UOC)
Students must complete two core courses:
- ARTS2845 Sex, Human Rights & Justice (6 UOC)
- HUMS2000 Arts Internship (6 UOC)*
- CRIM3001 Explaining Crime (6 UOC)
- CRIM3004 Crime and Punishment (6 UOC)
- CRIM3011 Crime Prevention Policy (6 UOC)
- CRIM3012 Violent & Sexual Offenders (6 UOC)
- CRIM3013 Understanding Violence (6 UOC)
- CRIM3015 State Crime and Human Rights (6 UOC)
- CRIM3019 Restorative Justice (6 UOC)
- CRIM3020 The Criminal Trial (6 UOC)
- ARTS3871 Forensic Sociology (6 UOC)
- PSYC3301 Psychology and Law (6 UOC)
- CRIM3000 Criminology Capstone (6 UOC)