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Criminology minor
Bachelor of ArtsMinorYear: 2021
Criminology minor
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 minor, 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: 12 November 2021
Structure
75 credit points
This minor requires the completion of:
- 12.5 credit points of Level 1 electives
- 12.5 credit points of Arts Foundation Subjects (MULT10018 Power highly recommended)
- 12.5 credit points of Level 2 core subject
- 12.5 credit points of Level 2 electives
- 25 credit points of Level 3 electives
The subject MULT20003 is core in the Criminology, Politics and International Studies, and Sociology majors and minors. Students who are completing a major and minor in any two of these disciplines can only count MULT20003 towards one major or minor. One additional Level 2 subject must be completed for the other major or minor.
Level 1 electives
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
CRIM10001 | Crime, Criminology, and Critique | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
CRIM10002 | Law in Society | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Level 2 core subject
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
MULT20003 | Critical Analytical Skills | Semester 1 (Online) |
12.5 |
Level 2 electives
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
CRIM20002 | Criminal Law and Political Justice | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
CRIM20003 | Policing | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
CRIM20004 | Order, Disorder, Crime, Deviance | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
CRIM20006 | Punishment and Social Control | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
CRIM20007 | Cybercrime and Digital Criminology | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
CRIM20008 | Terrorism: Shifting Paradigms | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
CRIM20009 | Race, Ethnicity, Crime and Justice | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
CRIM20010 | Law, Justice and Social Change | Semester 1 (Online) |
12.5 |
GEND20003 | Genders, Bodies & Sexualities | Not available in 2021 | 12.5 |
MULT20008 | Australian Indigenous Politics | Semester 1 (Online) |
12.5 |
SOCI20017 | Sexualising Society: Sociology of Sex | Semester 1 (Online) |
12.5 |
Level 3 electives
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
CRIM30001 | Crime and Public Policy | Semester 2 (Online) |
12.5 |
CRIM30002 | Global Criminology | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
CRIM30005 | Corporate Power and White Collar Crime | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
CRIM30006 | Crime and Culture | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
CRIM30010 | Managing Justice: Agencies and the State | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
CRIM30011 | Young People, Crime and Justice | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
CRIM30012 | Law in Social Theory | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
MULT30017 | Australian Indigenous Public Policy | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
SOCI30013 | Survey Design and Analysis | Semester 1 (Online) |
12.5 |
SOCI30014 | Sociology of 'Race' and Ethnicities | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Links
http://ssps.unimelb.edu.au/study-areas/criminology
Last updated: 12 November 2021