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Criminology

Graduate Diploma in ArtsSpecialisation (formal)Year: 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 completion of this specialisation, students should be able to:

  • Demonstrate a theoretically-informed approach to independent criminological research
  • Be able to apply critical skills and methods to the analysis of criminological problems in complex and changing social and policy contexts
  • Demonstrate the ability to participate in contemporary criminological debates as scholars, citizens and/or practitioners
  • Communicate effectively in written and other formats
  • Commit to continuous learning with intellectual honesty and a respect for ethical values

Last updated: 27 August 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 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
CRIM30001 Crime and Public Policy
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5

Core Subjects

25 points

Code Name Study period Credit Points
CRIM40003 Drugs and Justice Not available in 2024 12.5
CRIM90008 Sovereignty, Justice, Indigenous Peoples Not available in 2024 12.5
CRIM90009 Judging Crime
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
POLS90063 Indigenous Social & Political Movements Not available in 2024 12.5
CRIM90016 Community Justice Project
July (On Campus - 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 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
CRIM10002 Law in Society
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
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
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
MULT20008 Australian Indigenous Politics
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
MULT30017 Australian Indigenous Public Policy Not available in 2024 12.5
CRIM20010 Law, Justice and Social Change
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
CRIM30012 Law in Social Theory
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
CRIM30013 Gender and Crime
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
SOCI30013 Survey Design and Analysis
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5

Links

http://arts.unimelb.edu.au/ssps

Last updated: 27 August 2024