Criminology

Criminology draws knowledge and perspectives from a range of disciplines such as law, sociology, psychology, psychiatry and history. Initially, criminology had a strong practical focus: its role was to advise governments on issues such as policing, the management of prisons, sentencing and offender treatment. Concern with policy and practice remains, but criminologists now work in a much wider range of fields including crime prevention, corporate and white-collar crime, business regulation, drug policy and consumer and environmental protection. Criminology doesn’t take crime and criminal law for granted. As an academic discipline it continually questions why different societies define and respond to crime in different ways, and why approaches to punishment and other forms of social control have varied so much from era to era. Increasingly criminologists also study the ways cultures depict crime: whether in newspapers, television and other mass media or in films, novels and art.

Criminology is available as both a 100 point major and a 75 point minor area of study.

Major
Level 1

25 points of study consisting of:

• From Graffiti to Terrorism or Law In Society

and

• One Interdisciplinary Foundation Subject

Levels 2/3

37.5 points taken at each of level 2 and level 3, including:

• Social Science Research Methods (compulsory at level 2)
• Crime and Public Policy (capstone subject, compulsory at level 3)
• 50 points of Criminology Elective Subjects

The capstone subject is not available in the minor or as breadth studies outside the BA.

Total 100 points

Minor
Level 1

25 points of study consisting of:

• From Graffiti to Terrorism or Law In Society

• One Interdisciplinary Foundation Subject

• 50 points of Criminology subjects (4 subjects) including Social Science Research Methods (compulsory at level 2).

Level 1

Level 2 compulsory subject

Level 2 elective subjects

Level 3 Capstone

Level 3 electives