Bachelor of Arts / Bachelor of Creative Industries - Criminology and Criminal Justice

Western Sydney University

The Criminology major offers you the opportunity to study crime and criminal justice in a critical way that particularly stresses the social and cultural definitions of crime and how this is addressed in society. Areas of focus include criminal justice institutions and practices the development of criminology as a discipline and its various strands forms and patterns of victimisation crime prevention strategies and debates aspects of juvenile justice First Peoples and criminal justice the evolution of prisons and different forms of punishment law enforcement and surveillance violence, gender and crime cultural depictions of crime and contemporary debates in criminology.

School of Social Sciences

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