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Criminology
Graduate Diploma in ArtsSpecialisation (formal)Year: 2021
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
Students who complete the graduate diploma should:
- demonstrate an independent approach to knowledge that uses rigorous methods of inquiry and appropriate theories and methodologies that are applied with intellectual honesty and a respect for ethical values;
- apply critical and analytical skills and methods to the identification and resolution of problems within complex changing social contexts;
- act as informed and critically discriminating participants within the community of scholars, as citizens and in the work force;
- communicate effectively;
- commit to continuous learning; and
- be proficient in the use of appropriate modern technologies, such as the computer and other information technology systems, for the acquisition, processing and interpretation of data.
Last updated: 3 May 2024
Structure
100 credit points
Duration: 1 year full-time / 2 years part-time
The Graduate Diploma in Arts in this area of specialisation requires:
- two compulsory subjects (25 points)
- two core subjects (25 points)
- elective subjects (50 points)
Total 100 points
Please note: students can only take 12.5 points of elective subjects at first-year level
Subject Options
Compulsory Subjects
25 points
| Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| MULT20003 | Critical Analytical Skills | Semester 1 (Online) |
12.5 |
| MULT30018 | Applied Research Methods | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Core Subjects
25 points
| Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| CRIM40003 | Drugs and Justice | Semester 1 (Online) |
12.5 |
| CRIM90004 | Taming Business? Crime, Law and Politics | Not available in 2021 | 12.5 |
| CRIM90007 | Genocide, State Crime and the Law | Not available in 2021 | 12.5 |
| CRIM90008 | Sovereignty, Justice, Indigenous Peoples | Not available in 2021 | 12.5 |
| CRIM90009 | Judging Crime | Semester 1 (Online) |
12.5 |
| POLS90063 | Indigenous Peoples in Global Context | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| CRIM90016 | Industry Project: Crime and Justice | July (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Elective Subjects
50 points
Please note: students can only take a maximum 12.5 points of Level 1 subjects
| Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| CRIM10001 | Crime, Criminology, and Critique | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| MULT20008 | Australian Indigenous Politics | Semester 1 (Online) |
12.5 |
| MULT30017 | Australian Indigenous Public Policy | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| CRIM10002 | Law in Society | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| CRIM20010 | Law, Justice and Social Change | Semester 1 (Online) |
12.5 |
| CRIM30012 | Law in Social Theory | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| SOCI30013 | Survey Design and Analysis | Semester 1 (Online) |
12.5 |
Links
http://arts.unimelb.edu.au/ssps
Last updated: 3 May 2024