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.

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.

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

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

Level 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

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

Level 2

Level 3

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.

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

High achieving students may be eligible to graduate with a Bachelor of Laws (Honours).

Please visit the Honours in law website for further information about the current Honours policy (applicable to students who commenced the LLB in 2014 or earlier) and the new policy (applicable to students who commenced the LLB from 2015 onwards).

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. Entry to Honours requires a WAM of 70 or higher in the stream(s) seeking to be further studied.

Bachelor of Criminology (Honours) program 4505.

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

For information regarding fees for UNSW programs, please refer to the following website:  UNSW Fee Website.

Students who find they are unable to complete the combined degree may apply to transfer to the single Bachelor of Criminology & Criminal Justice program.