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Study masters degree online with Macquarie University through Open Universities Australia. Explore all degrees, subjects and short courses now.

The Master of Criminology (OUA) at Macquarie University is a future-focused, interdisciplinary programme designed to meet the growing demand for ethical, evidence-based, and innovative responses to crime and justice. Positioned at the intersection of theory, practice, and policy, the programme empowers students and professionals to lead transformative change in an increasingly complex criminological landscape. The programme combines experiential learning, applied research, and professional skill development to equip students for leadership in practice, innovation and reform. Students and professionals engage with contemporary challenges through policy design, ethical leadership training, and diverse case studies that reflect real-world justice challenges.The Master of Criminology (OUA) explores the causes, consequences, and prevention of crime through a curriculum grounded in solutions building and justice innovation. Key areas include criminological theory, justice reform, and policy development, alongside the examination of contemporary challenges facing criminal justice systems, such as technological innovations and questions of social justice. Whether advancing in current roles or pursuing new opportunities, graduates will be equipped with the skills and knowledge to design and implement ethical, evidence-based solutions that lead transformative change across diverse justice contexts.

Build advanced criminology expertise. You’ll delve into practical, ethical solutions to current justice challenges. Explore policy, technology, and global crime trends. Hone professional skills to analyse and transform modern justice systems.

Master of Criminology

Australia and Cyber Intelligence

Cyber Crime and Cyber Policing

Policing Investigations and Intelligence

Understanding Victims and Offenders

Applied Cyber Security

Homicide

Fraud and Cybercrime

Introduction to Criminology and Criminal Justice

Fundamentals in Forensic Science

Risk Assessment and Management in Forensic Mental Health

This subject was previously known as PICX842 Australia&#39;s Approach to Law Enforcement.How do we transform inequalities ingrained in the criminal justice system? This unit examines the relationships between social inequalities and crime and justice. It explores historical and contemporary critiques and methods that challenge and transform this relationship. The unit draws from multiple disciplines to theorise, examine, and re-imagine the understanding of crime and justice. It focuses on social cleavages to explore how inequalities are structured and re-produced by the criminal justice system. We foreground the lived experiences of marginalised individuals and communities impacted by the criminal justice system and critically examine research-based approaches and collaborative solutions that respond to injustices. In doing so, the unit explores the role of the criminal justice system in amplifying and reproducing social inequality, whilst analysing what punishment systems say about us as a society. This approach enables students to understand the relationship between inequality and justice and how to build a ethically-focused response to issues of crime, inequality and justice.

Look at the for-profit private security industry by examining methods, decision makers and stakeholders. You’ll analyse the working partnerships with the public, police and the wider law enforcement industry.  

Crime, Inequality and Justice

The subject was formerly known as PICX862 The Crimes of the PowerfulThis subject examines crimes committed by powerful individuals and institutions: white collar crimes, corporate crimes and state crimes. From the Nazi death camps of WWII, to the Bhopal and BHP Gulf oil spill environmental disasters of more recent decades, the most harmful crimes are not those committed by offenders on the &#39;street&#39;, but rather by individuals and organisations occupying the most influential and privileged positions in our societies. This unit reorients the criminological gaze upwards, away from traditional street offenders and towards the most powerful criminals who occupy corporate boardrooms, parliaments and military organisations. Students will explore contemporary examples of each of these types of offence, examine the characteristics of powerful offenders, and address why crimes of this magnitude often go unaddressed by both contemporary criminologists and our systems of criminal justice.

Gaze back at some of the most powerful and criminal individuals and institutions. Categorise types of crime, such as white collar and state crime. Study notorious offenders and criminal acts, including the BHP oil spill and Nazi death camps.

The Crimes of the Powerful

This subject is previously known as PICX849 Cyber Policing and Intelligence in AustraliaCyberspace has become a major site for different forms of warfare and coercion, ranging from cyber disruption, through information compromise, all the way to covert information operations on a national level. In this unit students learn how robust cyber intelligence can be used to enhance the often-reactive posture of cyber security. This includes understanding the role of cyber intelligence and counterintelligence within the broad, integrated configuration of cyber-security. Students will learn fundamental intelligence collection and analysis principles and apply them to a cyber-security context.

Examine cyber policing from an intelligence-led policing perspective by looking at cybercrime, jurisdictions and extradition, information sharing, collaboration and cyber policing challenges

This subject is previously known as PICX848 Applied Cyber Security.In today’s world, organisations must be able to protect and defend against threats in cyberspace. This subject provides a solid understanding of the theory and practice used to manage information security on computer systems and networks. Students will be exposed to multiple cyber security technologies, processes and procedures, learn how to analyse threats, vulnerabilities and risks present in these environments, and develop appropriate strategies to mitigate potential cyber security problems. Topics include: an overview of computer and communications security, risk assessment, human factors, identification and authentication, access controls, malicious software, software security and legal and ethical issues. Students will have the opportunity to use tools and software commonly used to attack/protect networks in order to develop workplace skills.

Gain an overview of communications security, risk assessment, human factors, authentication, malicious software, software security and legal and ethical issues for a comprehensive understanding of cyber security threats.

This subject is previously known as PICX845 Intelligence Theory and Practice.This unit exposes students to the diverse theories and/or theorems of intelligence as well as the different areas of intelligence and to intelligence process methodologies in a variety of contexts.and practice. It discusses the essential characteristics of intelligence systems and examines how the intelligence function fits within a dynamic national or international security context, situating the intelligence function within the Law Enforcement, Foreign, National Security and Military domains. The unit examines the Australian and selected international and other Western intelligence communities, as well as premier non-Western intelligence communities such as China, Russia, and other regions.

Recognise how the intelligence function sits within the dynamic contexts of national security, law enforcement, military and foreign domains. Compare Australian and selected international intelligence communities. 

Intelligence: From Theory to Application

This subject was previously known as PICX844 Intelligence AnalysisThis unit provides students with a deeper appreciation of the complexities of intelligence analysis and exposure to the analytical tools and methodologies that will help them better understand and potentially contribute as intelligence professionals. Students will consider some of the common challenges involved in intelligence analysis and assess the strategies used to mitigate bias and error. Students will apply what they have learned to conceptualise, design, and build intelligence analytical products, providing real-world focus and experience.

An advanced exploration of the analytical tools and methodologies used by intelligence professionals. Design and build intelligence analytical products to give a real-world focus to your study, including foresight and scenario planning.

Intelligence Analysis

The unit was previously known as PICX840 Cyber Crime and Cyber PolicingCyber crime refers to an array of criminal activity including offences against computer data and systems, computer-related offences, content offences, and copyright offences. While early computer hackers were more interested in youthful exploration, modern cybercrime is increasingly about criminal profit and this is reflected in the involvement of transnational organised crime groups. This subject will provide students with detailed understanding about the different types of cybercrime, the perpetrators, and investigation techniques.

Investigate the motivations, methodology and the victims of cyber crime by studying past and current cyber threats and future trends in high tech crime. Follow the involvement of transnational organised crime groups and profit trails. 

This subject was previously known as PICX814 The Intelligence Community in Australia.This unit provides students with an opportunity to examine the intelligence enterprise within a broader political, social, and moral context. Intelligence agencies are necessary to protect modern liberal democratic states; however, their work challenges the very democratic principles and freedoms on which those states were founded. Intelligence work can involve breaking the laws of other nations and making difficult moral choices. In this unit, students will consider the ethical challenges faced at each stage of the intelligence cycle and investigate the role, purpose and efficacy of systems of intelligence oversight and accountability.

Comprehend the framework for effective and efficient production and use of intelligence analysis for national security. Examine contemporary internal and external national security threats and the practices needed to combat them. 

Intelligence Ethics and Oversight

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