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Criminology
Bachelor of ArtsMajorYear: 2020
Criminology
Contact information
Coordinator
Diana Johns
Email: diana.johns@unimelb.edu.au
Currently enrolled students:
Future students:
Overview
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.
Intended learning outcomes
On successful completion of this major, students will be able to:
- understand the socio-economic, political, cultural and historical conditions influencing crime, justice and deviance, the criminal justice system, and crime control mechanisms from an Australian and international perspective; and
- critically discuss criminological and socio-legal theories and concepts; and
- understand the relationship between the institutions and practices of criminal justice and wider social control; and
- evaluate social, cultural, historical and legal responses to criminalisation, criminality and crime control from an interdisciplinary perspective; and
- demonstrate an understanding of research processes in the social sciences including design, methodology and methods, analysis, interpretation, and the diversity of approaches to research; and
- recognise the importance of ethical standards of conduct in the research and analysis of social and political phenomena; and
- work productively in groups; and
- communicate effectively in oral and written formats.
Last updated: 18 December 2020
Structure
100 credit points
MAJOR
A major in Criminology consists of eight x 12.5-point subjects:
Level 1
Two subjects / 25 points
- CRIM10001 From Graffiti to Terrorism
or - CRIM10002 Law In Society
and
- One Arts Foundation Subject (MULT10018 Power highly recommended; this can count towards major credit points for a single major). See Arts Foundation Structure page for further information.
Level 2
Three subjects / 37.5 points
- Compulsory subject MULT20003 Critical Analytical Skills
- and two level 2 Criminology subjects
Level 3
Three subjects / 37.5 points
- Compulsory capstone subject MULT30018 Applied Research Methods
- and two level 3 Criminology subjects.
Total 100 points
Note: Level 1 subjects must be successfully completed before progressing to level 2 subjects; level 2 subjects must be successfully completed before progressing to level 3 subjects. Only students completing a major in Criminology can enrol in the capstone subject
Refer to the Bachelor of Arts Handbook page for further information.
Minor
Level 1 (25 points)
- CRIM10001 From Graffiti to Terrorism or CRIM10002 Law In Society
and
- One Arts Foundation Subject (MULT10018 Power highly recommended)
Level 2
- 25points of Criminology subjects - MULT20003 Critical Analytical Skills (compulsory at level 2) and one level 2 elective.
Level 3
- 25points of Criminology subjects - two level 3 electives. The capstone subject is not available in the minor or as breadth studies outside the BA.
Total 75 points
Subject Options
Level 1 Subjects
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
CRIM10001 | From Graffiti to Terrorism | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
CRIM10002 | Law in Society | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Level 2 Compulsory Subject
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
MULT20003 | Critical Analytical Skills | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Level 2 Elective Subjects
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
CRIM20002 | Criminal Law and Political Justice | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
CRIM20003 | Policing | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
GEND20003 | Genders, Bodies & Sexualities | Not available in 2020 | 12.5 |
MULT20008 | Australian Indigenous Politics | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
CRIM20008 | Terrorism: Shifting Paradigms | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
CRIM20004 | Order, Disorder, Crime, Deviance | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
CRIM20006 | Punishment and Social Control | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
CRIM20009 | Race and Criminal Justice | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
CRIM20007 | Cybercrime and Digital Criminology | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
SOCI20017 | Sexualising Society: Sociology of Sex | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
CRIM20010 | Law, Justice and Social Change | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Level 3 Compulsory Capstone Subject
The capstone subject is compulsory for student completing a Criminology major. The capstone is not compulsory for students completing a minor.
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
MULT30018 | Applied Research Methods | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Level 3 Elective Subjects
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
CRIM30006 | Crime and Culture | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
CRIM30010 | Managing Justice: Agencies and the State | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
CRIM30011 | Young People, Crime and Justice | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
MULT30017 | Australian Indigenous Public Policy | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
SOCI30013 | Survey Design and Analysis | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
SOCI30014 | Sociology of 'Race' and Ethnicities | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
CRIM30001 | Crime and Public Policy | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
CRIM30002 | Global Criminology | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
CRIM30005 | Corporate Power and White Collar Crime | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
CRIM30012 | Law in Social Theory | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Links
http://ssps.unimelb.edu.au/study-areas/criminology
Last updated: 18 December 2020