	Degree information

	Bachelor of Arts

	Bachelor of Behavioural Science (Psychology)

	Bachelor of Government and Public Management

Major sequences and specialisations

Criminal Justice

Criminal Justice is offered as a major sequence within

Select the appropriate degree for links to the relevant program of study.

WHY STUDY CRIMINAL JUSTICE?

If you have an interest in crime and justice in all its contexts then the Criminal Justice major is for you! You will learn about persons who commit criminal acts and act violently as well as why they do so. You will discover how criminal behaviour might be controlled and better managed. You will find out what police services and other investigative agencies can and cannot do to control or reduce criminal behaviour. You will analyse how courts respond to criminal behaviour and how they make police services and investigative agencies accountable for their activities. You will find out what happens inside prisons.

This major will give you a wide knowledge about crime and justice and help you develop skills in research, analysis and communication.

CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

Students graduating with a Criminal Justice major face a competitive employment market.

However, the Criminal Justice system covers a wide range of disciplines so that graduates in Criminal Justice tend to have a broader choice of work from the following fields:

Counselling
Courts services
Correction services
Crime prevention
Community agencies
Police services
Policy development
Private security
Psychological services
Research
Social work

COURSE OVERVIEW

This major will give you a wide knowledge about crime and justice and help you develop skills in research, analysis and communication.

For example, in the first half of First Year the first topic you will take is Crime and Criminology.

This topic introduces you to some of the fundamental questions in criminology:

Extent and location of crime
Crime as a social construct
Various types of crime (such as robbery, drugs, corporate crime, family violence, trafficking in women and terrorism)
Individual and social explanations for crime

In the second half of First Year of the Criminal Justice major you take a topic called Criminal Justice System which examines a range of issues of vital importance to the criminal justice system:

What do the police do?
What happens in courts?
How does sentencing work?
What happens in prisons?
How does the system treat indigenous persons, victims and youth?

In later years you can choose from topics such as:

Criminal Law in Context
Drugs, Politics and Public Health
Investigating Crime
Policing and Law Enforcement
Power and Political Violence in Latin America
Psychology, Crime and the Law
Punishment, Sentencing and the State
Research Methodology
Researching Juvenile Crime
Sex, Gender and the Law
Sociology of Deviance
Crime, Law and Trauma
International Criminal Justice

HONOURS

Students who successfully complete their degree and meet certain entry requirements can apply to undertake Honours in Criminal Justice. Here students will take the topics Advanced Criminology as well as Crime and Public Policy. In addition, students will research and write a 15,000 word thesis in an area of interest to them.

FURTHER INFORMATION

The Admissions/Prospective Students Office,
Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide, SA 5001
Tel (08) 8201 3074 or 1300 657 671 (local call cost) Fax (08) 8201 2580
Email: admissions@flinders.edu.au