Charles Sturt University’s Bachelor of Social Science (Criminal Justice) course contains a core of vocationally relevant subjects which will enhance the knowledge and professional capacities of people involved in occupations related to the operation and administration of criminal justice and social justice.
Graduates could adapt to a range of careers in criminal justice and beyond.
You could consider: corrections, probation and parole and associated work with offenders and families, juvenile justice, justice research and policy, policing, and in other justice and social justice occupations.
The course is taught by dedicated professional academics with a wide range of experience.
They include:
Mr David Bull – interests include police-community relations, and police and the media
Ms Kim Browne – criminal law, DNA evidence, human rights, international law and illicit trafficking in antiquities
Ms Libbie Douglass – interests include psychology, and psychology of crime
Dr Alyce McGovern – interests include police-media relations, police media units, governmentality and risk communications
Dr Andrew McGrath – interests include juvenile offending, risk and needs assessment of juvenile offenders labeling theory
Dr Len Palmer – interest include sociology
Ms Kate Seymour – interests include corrections, gender and crime and serving Police Officers from the NSW Police Force
Dr Oliver Villar – political economy, Latin America & the global drug trade, immigrant community and international concerns
Dr Diane Westerhuis – interests include juvenile justice, historical and environmental criminology.
The Bachelor of Social Science (Criminal Justice) is a nationally accredited and registered award in tertiary education.
As a result of the integration of field work placements into the course, students gain an important introduction to diverse professional environments.
To graduate, students must satisfactorily complete 192 points.
The following courses provide opportunities for further study in justice studies and criminology by course work and/or research:
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