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Criminology - CRIMA24760

Stream Summary

Faculty: Faculty of Law

School: School of Social Sciences

Contact: Dr David Bright

Program: 4760 - Arts / Law

Award(s):

Bachelor of Arts (Minor)

Information valid for students commencing 2013.
Students who commenced prior to 2013 should go to the Handbook's Previous Editions

Stream Outline

Criminology is an interdisciplinary field devoted to the study of crime, deviance, social control and the legal system. Over the past 50 years, criminology has evolved into a rich, broad-based discipline, no longer narrowly focused on crime and punishment. Contemporary criminological scholars investigate a broad range of topics including justice, conflict, risk, security, insurance, policing, governance and regulation. Criminology is shaped not only by scholars in law, philosophy, psychology and sociology, but also those in history, politics, economics, architecture, cultural studies, and other interdisciplinary fields.

Aims
The minor 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 minor 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

A student who wishes to gain a minor stream in Criminology must complete 36 units of credit including 12 uoc at Level 1, at least 12 uoc at Level 2 and at least 12 uoc at Level 3.

Level 1

CRIM1010 Intro to Criminology (6 UOC)
CRIM1011 Intro to Criminal Justice (6 UOC)

Level 2

Students enrolled in the Arts/Law degree (4760) are excluded from enrolling in CRIM2020 Criminal Law and Justice 1 and CRIM2021 Criminal Law and Justice 2 as these are based on the compulsory core Law courses LAWS1001 Criminal Law 1 and LAWS1011 Criminal Law 2.