Offered since 1986, the programme is designed for people:
- who intend to start or already have a career in the police, the law, corrections, non-governmental organisations and related agencies;
- who want to complement their skills through the academic study of crime and criminal justice;
- who work in government, commerce, security and risk management, journalism, teaching, and other areas where a knowledge of criminology would be professionally helpful;
- who wish to increase their technical and conceptual skills through an advanced university education;
- who wish to pursue research studies in criminology.
On completion of the programme, students should:
- be able to apply a social-sciences approach to the study of crime and deviance;
- be able to understand a variety of contemporary developments in criminology and related social-policy issues;
- have possessed professional knowledge of the role of social sciences, including law and psychiatry, in understanding crime and criminal justice;
- be equipped with the theoretical and practical skills to investigate these core areas within criminology.
