The Bachelor of Social Science, Criminology and Criminal Justice major gives you highly developed skills and knowledge in criminology and related areas. If you have ever thought about the problem of crime and its prevention or how society defines and responds to crime, this degree could be for you. This major will give you a comprehensive understanding of how all of these factors fit together. The Criminology and Criminal Justice major offers you the opportunity to study crime and criminal justice in a critical way, by examining the selective process of dealing with some acts and persons as criminal and not so other acts and people. 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; policing, violence, gender and crime; cultural depictions of crime; and contemporary debates in criminology.

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