Bachelor of Social Science (Criminology and Criminal Justice)

Western Sydney University

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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