Program

Criminology & Crim Justi / Law - 4763

Program Summary

Faculty: Faculty of Law

Contact: http://www.law.unsw.edu.au/

Campus: Sydney

Career: Undergraduate

Typical Duration: 5 Years  

Typical UOC Per Semester: 24

Min UOC Per Semester: 6

Max UOC Per Semester: 27

Min UOC For Award: 240

UAC Code: 426000

Domestic Entry Requirements: See Domestic Entry Requirements

International Entry Requirements: See International Entry Requirements

Award(s):

Bachelor of Criminology and Criminal Justice

Bachelor of Criminology and Criminal Justice (Honours)

Bachelor of Criminology and Criminal Justice (Major)

Bachelor of Laws

Bachelor of Laws (Major)

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Program Description

This program is for new 2015 commencing students. If you are a continuing student please refer to the Online Handbook in the year you started your Dual Law degree or contact the Faculty of Law for advice.

International Students: please note that there is no mid-year intake for this program.

This dual degree program provides students with an opportunity to obtain two degrees of professional importance to the public sector, criminal justice, community service, business and law practice. Career opportunities include criminal justice agencies such as the Attorney-General's department, Police, Prisons; Customs; ASIO; Magistrates, District and Supreme Courts; Australian Bureau of Statistics; and practising as a criminal law barrister. In addition, graduates may also undertake analytical and research work in a wide range of areas from aspects of law such as sentencing and punishment to the social causes of a range of crimes from domestic violence to terrorism.

The Bachelor of Criminology & Criminal Justice (BCCJ) is an innovative and interdisciplinary field of study with a real world focus designed to explore your interests in crime, deviance, social control and the legal system. Contemporary criminological scholars investigate a broad range of topics including justice, conflict, risk, security, policing, state crime, alternative justice systems, criminalisation and regulation. Key concerns include the nature of crime, how crime is defined and measured, why people commit crime and how societies might respond. Criminologists tackle ‘real world’ social problems including victimisation, juvenile justice, drug-related harm, community safety, indigenous justice, organised crime and corrections. Criminology is shaped by scholars in law, philosophy, psychology and sociology, and other interdisciplinary fields including history, politics, economics, architecture, and cultural studies. The UNSW BCCJ also provides you with the skills of applied social research and policy analysis.

Assumed Knowledge
Students must satisfy the normal assumed knowledge requirements for entry to the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, and to individual courses in that Faculty.

Program Objectives and Graduate Attributes

Please refer to the program objectives and learning outcomes as listed for the Bachelor of Criminology & Criminal Justice program 3422.

Program Structure

Unit Requirements:
Law compulsory courses - 96 UOC
Prescribed law elective - 6 UOC
Law elective courses - 42 UOC
Law Total - 144 UOC

Criminology Core (36 UOC)
Social Research and Policy Core (42 UOC)
Prescribed Criminology Electives (18 UOC)
Criminology Total - 96UOC

Total - 240 UOC

Criminology Core
Compulsory courses (36 UOC) made up of:
Level 1
CRIM1010 Introduction to Criminology
CRIM1011 Introduction to Criminal Justice

Level 2
CRIM2020 Criminal Law and Justice 1
CRIM2021 Criminal Law and Justice 2

Students enrolled in the Criminology & Criminal Justice/Law degree (4763) are excluded from enrolling in the two core courses CRIM2020 Criminal Law and Justice 1 and CRIM2021 Criminal Law and Justice 2 as these are based on the compulsory core Law courses LAWS1021 Crime and Criminal Process and LAWS1022 Criminal Laws. Students should instead enrol in two substitute Criminology prescribed electives at Level 2 (see prescribed electives list below).

Level 3
CRIM3001 Explaining Crimes
CRIM3000 Criminology Capstone

Prescribed Criminology Electives

Please seek advice from the coordinator for PSYC3301 about the pre-requisites.

Social Research and Policy Core
Compulsory courses (42 UOC) made up of
Level 1
SRAP1000 Policy and Society
SRAP1001 Social Research and Policy

Level 2
SRAP2001 Qualitative Social Research
SRAP2002 Policy Analysis

Level 3
SRAP3000 Policy and Social Theory (6 UOC)
SRAP3001 Quantitative Social Research
SRAP3002 Social Research and Policy Project

Prescribed Criminology Electives
A Prescribed Criminology Elective is any course chosen by the student from the approved list of Criminology elective courses provided by the Program.

Award with Distinction in NonLLB degree

High achieving students who secure a WAM of 75 across their program and who have completed at least 48 uoc of their program at UNSW are eligible for the award of their Pass Degree "with Distinction".

Approved Sequence of Study


General Education Requirements

Students enrolled in combined law degrees (with exception to Jurisprudence/Law) are not required to complete general education courses.

Honours

Honours in Laws
The Bachelor of Laws (LLB) will be awarded with the following levels of Honours:

Honours Class 1
Honours Class 2, Division 1
Honours Class 2, Division 2

To be awarded Honours in Law, students are not required to complete an additional year. Honours in Law is based on academic excellence throughout the degree. There are three criteria relevant for awarding Honours:

Honours Weighted Average Mark (WAM)
The Honours WAM weighting for core/electives for the Honours WAM is currently under review.
Satisfactory performance in written research
The Research Requirement for Honours is under review.
Not been found guilty of plagiarism or serious misconduct on more than one occasion and not more than one failure in the law program

For more information, please visit Honours Page on the Law website.

Honours in Bachelor of Arts and Social Sciences

After completion of 144 uoc including all of the requirements of the Bachelor of Criminology & Criminal Justice dual degree, high achieving students may apply for admission to the Bachelor Criminology (Honours) program 4505. A minimum WAM of 70 in the Bachelor of Criminology & Criminal Justice component of the dual degree is required for entry into Honours.

Bachelor of Criminology (Honours) program 4505.

Academic Rules

For academic rules on Bachelor of Criminology and Criminal Justice
To qualify for the award of the degree at Pass level, a student must:
1. enrol in the Bachelor of Criminology & Criminal Justice and complete 96 units of credit;
2. complete the requirements for the Criminology Core
3. complete the requirements for the Social Science and Policy Core
4. complete at least 30 UOC of Level I courses before enrolling in Level II courses
5. complete at least 30 UOC of Level II courses before enrolling in Level III courses
6. complete at least 72 UOC overall before enrolling in the program's Capstone course

For Academic Rules relating to the Bachelor of Laws
For Academic Rules relating to the Bachelor of Laws component of this combined degree program, please refer to program 4701. Although 4701 program is no longer on offer, all combined law students enrolled in the LLB will need to comply with the rules stated here.

A direct link is given below:
Bachelor of Laws 4701

Fees

For information regarding fees for UNSW programs, please refer to the following website:  https://my.unsw.edu.au/student/fees/FeesMainPage.html

Graduation

Students who find they are unable to complete the combined degree may apply to transfer to the single BSocScCrim degree program with credit for all courses completed.

Area(s) of Specialisation