Handbook - Criminology & Criminal Justice / Law

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Overview

This Handbook is for commencing students. If you commenced in a prior year please refer to the Online Handbook in the year you started your Law degree or contact the Faculty of Law and Justice for advice.

This program provides students with an opportunity to obtain two degrees of professional importance to the public sector, criminal justice, community service, business and law practice. Career opportunities include criminal justice agencies such as the Attorney-General's department, Police, Prisons; Customs; ASIO; Magistrates, District and Supreme Courts; Australian Bureau of Statistics; and practising as a criminal law barrister. In addition, graduates may also undertake analytical and research work in a wide range of areas from aspects of law such as sentencing and punishment to the social causes of a range of crimes from domestic violence to terrorism.

The Bachelor of Criminology & Criminal Justice (BCCJ) is an innovative and interdisciplinary field of study with a real world focus designed to explore your interests in crime, deviance, social control and the legal system. Contemporary criminological scholars investigate a broad range of topics including justice, conflict, risk, security, policing, state crime, alternative justice systems, criminalisation and regulation. Key concerns include the nature of crime, how crime is defined and measured, why people commit crime and how societies might respond. Criminologists tackle 'real world' social problems including victimisation, juvenile justice, drug-related harm, community safety, indigenous justice, organised crime and corrections. Criminology is shaped by scholars in law, philosophy, psychology and sociology, and other interdisciplinary fields including history, politics, economics, architecture, and cultural studies. The UNSW BCCJ also provides you with the skills of applied social research and policy analysis.

Stand Alone Programs

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Double Degree Structure

Students must complete 240 UOC.

1. Law compulsory courses - 96 UOC
2. Prescribed law elective - 6 UOC
3. Law elective courses - 42 UOC
4. Criminology Core - 42 UOC*
5. Social Science Core - 36 UOC
6. Prescribed Criminology Electives - 18 UOC*

* Note: students will not take CRIM2020 and CRIM2021 in the Criminology Core as part of this double-degree program. The content of these courses is covered by LAWS1021 and LAWS1022 taken as part of the Bachelor of Laws program. Instead of CRIM2020 and CRIM2021, students should enrol in additional Criminology electives to meet the requirement of 240 units of credit, ie students will complete 30 UOC for the Criminology Core, and 30 UOC of Prescribed Criminology electives.

Disciplinary Component - 3422 Criminology & Criminal Justice96 Units of Credit:

Students must complete 96 UOC of the following to satisfy the core requirements of this degree

Level 1 Criminology & Criminal Justice Core Courses12 Units of Credit:

Level 1 Social Science Core Courses12 Units of Credit:

Level 2 Criminology & Criminal Justice Core Courses18 Units of Credit:

Students must take 18 UOC of the following courses.

Note: Students enrolled in the double degree Criminology and Criminal Justice/Law (4763) complete LAWS1021 and LAWS1022 and are excluded from CRIM2020 and CRIM2021. Students should enrol in substitute Criminology & Criminal Justice Prescribed electives at Level 2.

Level 2 Social Science Core Courses12 Units of Credit:

Level 3 Criminology & Criminal Justice Core Courses12 Units of Credit:

Level 3 Social Science Core Courses12 Units of Credit:

Criminology & Criminal Justice Prescribed Electives18 Units of Credit:

Students must take at least 18 UOC of the following courses.

Disciplinary Component - 4701 Law144 Units of Credit:

Students must complete 144 UOC of the following to satisfy the core requirements of this degree.

Core Courses96 Units of Credit:

Students must take 96 UOC of the following courses.

In the first term of enrolment, students must enrol in both LAWS1052 Introducing Law & Justice and LAWS1055 Legal Research & Writing.

Prescribed Theory Electives6 Units of Credit:

Law Elective Courses42 Units of Credit:

Students must complete 42 UOC of Law Electives.

Note: With the permission of the Director of Undergraduate Studies and the course teacher, undergraduate students may enrol in one or more Postgraduate courses, in a select list of approved Postgraduate Electives. Not more than half the students' total elective courses may be taken from the postgraduate offerings.

Nura-Gili Pre-Law Program

Enrolment Disclaimer

Please read the Double Degree Program rules as some specific rules apply to particular Double Degree combinations.

You are responsible for ensuring you enrol in courses according to your program requirements and advice from your Program Authority. myUNSW enrolment checks that you have met enrolment requirements such as pre-requisites for individual courses but not that you are enrolling in courses that will count towards your program.

Program Fees

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Faculty
Faculty: The primary academic unit in which related disciplines of teaching and research are conducted.

Managing Faculty

Campus

Sydney

Study Level
Study Level refers to the academic level of a program, specialisation or course.

Undergraduate

Typical duration:

5 Year(s)

Intake Period

Term 1

Academic Calendar

Minimum Units of Credit

240

Award Type(s)

Bachelor

Award(s)
Award(s): Qualification upon completion (all awards offered by UNSW are accredited by UNSW and align with the Australian Qualifications Framework).

Bachelor of Criminology and Criminal Justice - BCCJ
Bachelor of Laws - LLB

UAC Code

426000

CRICOS Code

059028A