Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Social Science - Criminology

Western Sydney University

This double degree program is designed for students whose interests span the Arts and Social Sciences. It will give you the skills and versatility to work across a range of academic and professional disciplines, including the opportunity to develop global perspectives and communication skills. You need to include a Social Science Major, so you can design your own academic program within the Bachelor of Social Science program structure. This qualification in Social Science is then combined with an Arts major.This criminology major offers students the opportunity to study crime and criminal justice in a critical way that particularly stresses social and cultural definitions of criminality and the reactions to it.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 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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