Criminology (B-ARTS_MAJOR_10)

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 completion of this major, students should 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: 2 October 2024

Structure

100 credit points

This major requires the completion of:

25 credit points of Level 1 subjects, comprising of either:
12.5 credit points of Level 1 electives and 12.5 credit points of Arts Discovery (for a single major)

OR

25 credit points of Level 1 electives (for a double major)
12.5 credit points of Level 2 core subjects
25 credit points of Level 2 electives
12.5 credit points of Level 3 Capstone subjects
25 credit points of Level 3 electives

The subjects MULT20003 is compulsory in the Criminology, Politics and International Studies, and Sociology majors. Students who are completing two majors in any two of these disciplines can only count MULT20003 towards one major. One additional Level 2 subject and one additional Level 3 subject must be completed for the other major.

*Notes:

Students must undertake the Arts Discovery subject as part of the course requirements and the Arts Discovery can be counted in one major only. For this major, you will need to complete two Level 1 subjects.

If you are completing a single major the correct enrolment for this major at level 1 is: The Arts Discovery subject and One Level 1 elective subject

If you are completing a double major the correct enrolment for this major at level 1 is: The Arts Discovery subject and One Level 1 Elective subject OR Two Level 1 Elective subjects

Level 1 electives

Code	Name	Study period	Credit Points
CRIM10001	Crime, Criminology, and Critique	Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
CRIM10002	Law in Society	Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5

Level 2 core subject

Code	Name	Study period	Credit Points
MULT20003	Critical Analytical Skills	Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5

Level 2 electives

Code	Name	Study period	Credit Points
CRIM20002	Criminal Law and Political Justice	Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
CRIM20003	Policing	Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
CRIM20004	Order, Disorder, Crime, and Deviance	Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
CRIM20006	Punishment and Social Control	Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
CRIM20007	Cybercrime and Digital Criminology	Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
CRIM20008	Terrorism: Shifting Paradigms	Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
CRIM20009	Race, Ethnicity, Crime and Justice	Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
CRIM20010	Law, Justice and Social Change	Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
GEND20003	Genders, Bodies & Sexualities	Not available in 2024	12.5
MULT20008	Australian Indigenous Politics	Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
SOCI20017	Sexualising Society	Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
CRIM20011	Abolition	Not available in 2024	12.5

Level 3 Capstone subject

Code	Name	Study period	Credit Points
CRIM30014	Contemporary Critical Criminology	Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5

Level 3 electives

Code	Name	Study period	Credit Points
CRIM30001	Crime and Public Policy	Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
CRIM30002	Global Criminology	Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
CRIM30005	Corporate Power and White Collar Crime	Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
CRIM30006	Crime and Culture	Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
CRIM30010	Managing Justice: Agencies and the State	Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
CRIM30011	Young People, Crime and Justice	Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
CRIM30012	Law in Social Theory	Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
MULT30017	Australian Indigenous Public Policy	Not available in 2024	12.5
SOCI30013	Survey Design and Analysis	Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
SOCI30014	Race and Racism in Australia	Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
CRIM30013	Gender and Crime	Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5

Links

http://ssps.unimelb.edu.au/study-areas/criminology