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The goal of the criminology programme is to equip students with the skills and opportunities to cultivate a critical comprehension of crime and injustice. This education will empower them to think innovatively and ethically when addressing the persistent challenges of crime, deviance, and harm, whether they choose to pursue further education, engage in research, or enter the workforce. As a rich, inter-disciplinary subject weaving together disciplines of across the social sciences, law and Indigenous studies, criminology examines social and cultural dimensions of crime, deviance and injustice to present an advanced understanding that challenges the commonly held assumptions regarding the causes, consequences, and approaches to crime control. Students will learn about key institutions of criminal justice, including the police, prisons and punishment, analysing their differing impact on communities and be introduced to alternative models of punishment and crime control. Key concerns include historical understandings of crime, the enduring relationship between inequality, how crime intersects with topics such as race, gender, Indigeneity, age and sexuality as well as criminological responses to contemporary challenges, including climate security, terrorism, cyber-crime and security.

Study crime, justice and inequality in today’s world. You’ll build skills in research, analysis, and policy to advocate for change. Explore police, prisons, and punishment. Graduate ready for roles in law enforcement, support services, and intelligence.

Bachelor of Criminology

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Introduction to Criminology and Criminal Justice

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Risk Assessment and Management in Forensic Mental Health

This unit covers the social, moral and political relationships that underpin &#39;justice&#39; and &#39;punishment&#39;. Students will explore the purpose, aims and operation of criminal justice in New South Wales. The &#39;cycle of justice&#39; is unpacked, including: concepts of justice; the politics of justice; what happens in court; how people are punished and what we expect to happen afterwards. Students re-examine the socially constructed nature of both justice and punishment, questioning the purpose of law, the rule of law and the social contract. Students will analyse the role of these concepts in maintaining, or disrupting, established notions of justice. Students will observe justice in action and report back on their findings.

Introduction to Justice and Punishment

The spread of transnational crime is one of the most significant challenges facing governments around the world today. For all its benefits, globalisation has opened new avenues for criminal enterprise to expand across traditional domestic borders, creating new challenges for global security, risk governance and crime control. Traditionally crime has tended to be - and largely still is - viewed as a security concern within nation states. By contrast, this unit examines how crime has evolved through the globalising process, creating global and regional instability. Moreover, many state responses to crime, such as illicit drugs, wholly fail to address to systemic, global networks that underpin the trade. Across this unit, students will evaluate a variety of transnational criminal issues, from drug trafficking to people smuggling, money laundering to counterfeiting, and will examine the regional implications of for national and transnational security. In many instances, as students will discover, underpinning civil conflict and terrorist organisations are crime networks. Engaging with these debates will enable students to think beyond traditional, state-based crime, and better understand the global challenges and preventative strategies required to combat transnational crime.

Transnational Crime

What is the role of the police and policing in the 21st Century? Who gives the police legitimacy for their use of force and detention? How do the police respond to societal and political challenges of our time? Drawing on these questions, this unit offers an analytical look at policing, from police behaviour and organisation to its operations and historical perspectives. Focusing on the relationship between the police, society and the community, the unit examines how policing has changed over time, drawing on important theoretical foundations, examine the changing function of the police and policing. Through this unit, students will be introduced to the societal position of policing, which prioritises the careful scrutiny of the role and function police practice. In doing so, the unit examines the police as an institution as well as police practice, focusing on police legitimacy, the use of force, police culture, corruption, policing strategies and challenges to the police in the contemporary world. In undertaking this unit, students will be guided through the criminological study of policing, understanding how the police are a key institution across social democracies as well as their systemic failings and challenges. Taken together, students will be better able to understand and critically analyse the wider challenges, impact and development of the police in Australia.

Policing and Crime

This unit introduces students to the challenges of intelligence policy. It covers intelligence policy in the Western world--with a focus on the Five Eyes intelligence services and other Western/non-Western allies; as well as adversarial intelligence communities. Upon successful completion of the course students will understand some of the dynamics that affect intelligence policy at the national, regional, and international levels. They will also understand the different mechanisms through which intelligence policy is shaped, formulated and implemented. Moreover, students will gain a deeper understanding of the complexities of coordination, prioritization and evaluation of the intelligence community, and of the dilemmas of and different approaches to integrating intelligence into policy and decision-making at the national and international levels. Finally, students will understand the broad social, economic, and political ramifications of different intelligence-policy choices.

Intelligence Management and Policy

This subject was previously known as PICX210 Intelligence and Counter Intelligence.This subject provides an introduction to the fields of intelligence and counterintelligence. It focuses on the strategic, tactical and operational levels of national security, as well as the role of law enforcement and intelligence organisations in protecting the state from domestic and foreign threats. Students will gain an understanding of the history of intelligence, the intelligence cycle, counter-intelligence and intelligence accountability. Students will engage with key case studies from around the world to further understand the issues and challenges in intelligence.

Learn to identify the key agencies in Australia’s national security community. Articulate the relationship between public and private sector law enforcement and intelligence organisations in protecting the state from domestic and foreign threats.

Intelligence for Decision Advantage

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