Bachelor of Arts in Criminal Justice (Hons)

The University of Winnipeg

The Criminal Justice program focuses on the study of social, cultural and governmental responses to crime. This includes a study of law making and lawbreaking and transgression, use of state power, including different dimensions of the police, courts, and corrections. The program explores issues of social justice, surveillance, law, socio-legal connections, offending, victims, and policy and practices found in institutions of justice. This program offers three Bachelor of Arts degree programs (3-year, 4-year, or Honours). Students taking a degree in another Major may choose to add a Minor in Criminal Justice as a secondary area of interest.