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Criminology minor

Bachelor of ArtsMinorYear: 2024

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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: 2 October 2024

Structure

75 credit points

This minor requires the completion of:

  • 25 credit points of Level 1 subjects, comprising of:

    25 credit points of Level 1 electives

    OR

    12.5 credit points of Level 1 electives and 12.5 credit points of Arts Discovery

  • 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 (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 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

Last updated: 2 October 2024