Criminology - CRIMA13855
Stream Summary
Faculty: ARTSC - Faculty of Arts&Social Science
School: School of Social Sciences
Contact: Dr Jesse Cale
Program: 3855 - Medicine / Arts
Award(s):
Bachelor of Arts (Major)
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Stream Outline
Students commencing from 2016 should refer to the relevant stream version for their program. Please click here for a complete list of programs in which Criminology can be studied.
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 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
Students must complete two core courses:
- CRIM2014 Issues in Policing (6 UOC)
- CRIM2031 Indigenous Perspective (6 UOC)
- CRIM2032 Disability in Criminal Justice (6 UOC)
- CRIM2034 Crime, Politics and the Media (6 UOC)
- CRIM2036 Prison and Punishment (6 UOC)
- CRIM2038 Young People, Risk and Harm (6 UOC)
- CRIM2040 Criminal Networks (6 UOC)
- CRIM2041 Crime and Punishment (6 UOC)
- ARTS2845 Sex, Human Rights & Justice (6 UOC)
- HUMS2000 Arts Internship (6 UOC)*
- CRIM3001 Explaining Crime (6 UOC)
- CRIM3011 Crime Prevention Policy (6 UOC)
- CRIM3012 Violent & Sexual Offenders (6 UOC)
- CRIM3015 State Crime and Human Rights (6 UOC)
- CRIM3018 Victims' Rights (6 UOC)
- CRIM3020 The Criminal Trial (6 UOC)
- CRIM3021 History from Crime (6 UOC)
- CRIM3022 Public Health and Corrections (6 UOC)
- ARTS3871 Forensic Sociology (6 UOC)
- ARTS3886 Living Social Justice (6 UOC)
- PSYC3301 Psychology and Law (6 UOC)
- CRIM3000 Criminology in Practice (6 UOC)