Showing 46 courses for the subject Criminology
Challenging human rights abuses and international crimes requires evidence. The methodologies of fact-finding are becoming increasingly democratized. Citizens can now conduct their own documentation, advocacy, and strategic engagement through the use...
This course examines the relationship between popular cultural, criminal, and deviant practices. In addition to studying examples of the criminalisation of cultural practices, students will focus on how far popular cultural representations of crime a...
Gender and Crime
CRIM419
An examination of the role of gender in relation to such areas as rape, murder, family violence and the sex industry. The course will evaluate the extent to which gender needs to be taken into account when considering the causes, effects and preventi...
The Sociology of Punishment
CRIM416
An examination and explanation of the forms, functions, and significance of punishment in modern society.
This course provides an in-depth analysis of several important topics in criminal and investigative psychology. Three main areas will be considered: homicide, offender profiling, and the psychology of punishment. On completion of this course, student...
Restorative Justice has been deemed one of the most significant innovations in the administration of justice since the birth of the modern nation state. This course explores the origins, historical development, critical areas of practice and theoreti...
Crimes Against the Environment
CRIM402
This course explores the nature of environmental harm from a criminological perspective. Drawing on the conceptual foundations and approaches of Green Criminology, the course investigates the causes and contexts of environmental crime, and considers ...
While providing an overview of the development and implementation of criminal justice, this course critically examines the significant social, political, economic and cultural contexts in which ‘justice’ is undertaken in Aotearoa New Zealand. The cou...
Special Topic: Green Criminology
CRIM303
This course explores the harms experienced by people, non-human animals, and ecosystems as a result of human activity with the environment. Engaging with the concept of ecojustice and drawing on a range of perspectives from the field of green crimino...
Policing
CRIM311
A critical examination of policing in modern society. Topics will include the history of the police and policing, the evolution of policing methods and strategies, police culture and discretion, issues of gender and ethnicity, and police accountabili...
Sexual Violence
CRIM324
This course is designed to introduce students to the issues and concepts central to an understanding of sexual violence. The focus of the course is on the study of adult rape/sexual assault and child sexual abuse. The course explores the causes, char...
Criminological Research Methods
CRIM326
CRIM 326 will provide an introduction to research methods in criminology. The course will present different approaches to studying crime and explore the important ethical issues in doing criminological research. Note: this course is strongly recommen...
This course examines the intersections of colonisation and criminal justice in Aotearoa New Zealand. The development of criminal justice is located within the larger history of settler-colonialism and, against this backdrop, we draw on analytical con...
Introduction to Criminology
CRIM111
CRIM 111 is a broad-based introduction to key criminological concepts, debates and theories. The first half explores a wide range of theoretical explanations for crime/criminality. The second explores the attempts to measure crime, media representati...
Crime in Aotearoa New Zealand
CRIM202
This course critically examines criminal offending in Aotearoa New Zealand. The course considers patterns of offending and victimization in relation to historical events, political ideologies and social relations, and highlights processes of criminal...
Current Issues in Criminology
CRIM204
The course will consider issues of current criminological concern, here in New Zealand and globally. Students will be encouraged to think about the full range of crimes and social harms associated with these issues. Human rights will be introduced as...
This course will introduce you to the concept of social harm, moving beyond the idea of 'crime' to consider a broad range of harms that occur throughout society. This is achieved through engagement with key theoretical literature that has laid the fo...
Criminal Psychology
CRIM217
CRIM 217 provides an introduction to psychological approaches to understanding, investigating and preventing criminal behaviour. Topics covered include developmental patterns in offending, the psychology of wrongful convictions and criminal investiga...
Students will critically examine the nature and extent of discrimination experienced by particular groups in the criminal justice system with particular focus on indigenous people, minority ethnic groups, women and Muslims. Key concepts explored incl...
Green Criminology
CRIM304
This course explores the harms experienced by people, non-human animals, and ecosystems resulting from human activity with the environment. Engaging with the concept of ecojustice and drawing on a range of perspectives from the field of green crimino...
Restorative Justice has been deemed one of the most significant innovations in the administration of justice since the birth of the modern nation state. This course explores the origins, development, theory and practice of restorative approaches in c...
Prisons in Aotearoa New Zealand
CRIM310
This course examines issues of state punishment and incarceration in Aotearoa New Zealand. A central focus is the record growth in the country’s prison population over the last four decades. These changes are viewed in relation to broader social issu...
Punishment and Modern Society
CRIM312
The historical development of modern punishment, with particular reference to New Zealand, and its relationship to broader social and political change.
Women, Crime and Social Control
CRIM313
The study of women's involvement and experiences within the criminal justice system and its social control implications. Topics include women as offenders, women as victims, and women as criminal justice professionals.
An exploration of the range of delinquency theories that account for the formation of gangs in societies. The course explores these traditions through a critical and Pacific criminological lens and identifies key themes that challenge the global nort...
White-Collar Crime
CRIM315
This course will examine white-collar crime, using case study examples to look at well-known case studies of individual white-collar crimes, corporate crimes, and political crimes. Understanding these 'crimes of the powerful' is a key part of contemp...
Criminological Theory
CRIM316
A study of various theories of crime causation and their implications for understanding criminal behaviour.
State Crime
CRIM323
This course examines theoretical, social, political, and legal perspectives on state crime. Through case-study material, state crime is shown to be diverse, destructive and, often, hidden. The course evaluates how state officials join with other acto...
Drugs, Risk and Play
CRIM325
This course will examine the place of drugs, both legal and illegal, in contemporary society through a critical exploration of the socially constructed boundaries between use and misuse. The course will also critically interrogate the use of drugs in...
Terrorism and Political Violence
CRIM328
The course analyses terrorism and political violence, and challenges conventional distinctions between legitimate war and illegitimate political violence. The course explores the causes of terrorism and political violence by describing and evaluating...
Organised Crime
CRIM401
This course explores issues related to organised crime with a focus on transnational organised crime. Students will learn about trafficking through case study analyses of a number of different cross- border criminal trades. Examples include trafficki...
Issues in Crime Prevention
CRIM414
This course critically examines a range of issues central to the conceptualisation, implementation and evaluation of crime prevention in New Zealand and internationally. It critically analyses the emergence of contemporary crime prevention, its major...
This course critically analyses concepts and theories of Digital Criminology, harm, power, and activism. ‘Digital Criminology’ explores key issues that relate to the study of Digital Criminology, alongside critically examining the harms related to cy...
The aim of this course is to advance a critical understanding of the diverse nature of drug use and drug users in society. This course critically analyses: the divide between legal and illegal drugs; the social construction of drug use and misuse; th...
This course draws on zemiology, along with queer and feminist criminology, to examine gendered forms of injustice, and the regulation of sex and sexuality. It unpacks the relationship between social norms, legislative responses, and the production of...
Liberties, Rights and Justice
CRIM423
This course critically examines rights thinking, law, policy and practice. Students explore case-study material and reflect on how state violence and harms are negotiated and sustained through rights frames. Students consider the complexity of rights...
Criminology Theory
CRIM430
This course explores the key foundations and propositions of the most influential theorie of the causes and social responses to crime. Students will learn about the major theoretical questions that have challenged criminologists and the directions th...
Criminology Research Methods
CRIM431
This course provides students with a grounding in the key methodologies and methods of Criminological data collation and analysis. It engages diverse research paradigms, including Māori research tikanga and Pasifika methodologies, and allows students...
Research Project
CRIM489
In this course students will choose and conduct an independent research project and write an extended essay. They will receive individual supervision from a staff member on their research project, while a taught component will familiarise students wi...
Thesis
CRIM591
MA thesis in Criminology.
Dissertation
CRIM593
This course enables students to pursue an individual research project in relation to a Criminological topic. Students will be given guidance and support from a supervisor and will write up their research in the form of a dissertation.
Internship
SACS428
Approved and supervised voluntary work placement of the student in a public sector agency, private sector establishment, or non-governmental organisation with a focus on any of research, policy or service provision issues.
Crime, Youth and Culture
CRIM426
This course examines the interrelated arguments surrounding youth crime and criminality. The theoretical discussions around the category of youth and youth (sub)cultures will be critically examined, from a variety of criminological perspectives, as w...
Special Topic: Organised Crime
CRIM220
An introduction to organised crime: historical and contemporary manifestations; theoretical explanations; policing and control policies. Topics include case studies of organised crime groups and networks, and also examinations of the types of activit...
Biosocial criminology
CRIM327
This course provides an introduction to the biosocial approach in criminology. The role of evolution, genetics and neurobiology in understanding criminal behaviour will be examined and implications for the criminal justice system will be explored. A ...
Criminology for PhD
CRIM690
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