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Bachelor of Criminology and Criminal Justice

Enabling career aspirations

Program code

1112

Available at

Nathan

Gold Coast

Mount Gravatt

Logan

South Bank

Online

Offshore

Other

Duration

3 years full-time
6 years part-time

Credit points

240

Indicative fee

$16,500.00* per year (more)
* 2025 indicative annual CSP fee

Entry requirements

63.00

ATAR/RANK 2024

(more)

Commencing in

Trimester 1 and Trimester 2

Prerequisites

  • NIL

Assumed knowledge

  • Any General or Applied English subject (Units 3 and 4, C)

About this program

Study with Australia's top-ranked university for criminology*

Use criminology as your launch pad to join the fight for justice, contribute to a safer community and a better criminal justice system. You'll learn from experts and industry leaders who bring their real-life, hands-on experience to your study. Our strong international research reputation means you will be taught by academics who are recognised worldwide in their various fields.

During your study, you will engage in a wide variety of work-integrated learning experiences to help tackle issues faced by local communities. Our industry connections fuel our unique learning experiences, to give you practical insight into the workings of the criminal justice system, and the opportunity to work with agencies matched to your career aspirations.

In this degree you will:

  • Explore the causes of crime and society's response through the justice system.
  • Understand the perspectives of victims and offenders.
  • Draw on knowledge and insights from many fields of study, including psychology, law, sociology, politics, and social work.
  • Analyse crime with a focus on social justice, including the roles of police, courts, corrections.
  • Learn effective strategies for examining, preventing, and reducing crime.
  • Study topics like criminal law, homicide, First Nations justice, fraud and cybercrime, and domestic and family violence.
  • Develop expertise in how crime can be prevented, and how research methods can be applied to assess impact and improve understanding.
  • Acquire technical and information literacy capabilities such as data analysis and visualisation skills.


Industry and expert connections

Experience matters. Join one of the largest communities of criminologists in the world and access the best minds in the industry. We're internationally renowned for applied research that makes a difference, and for close collaborations with practitioners and employers. That knowledge feeds into the most up-to-date study content, giving you the best skills for an employment edge.

You'll develop career-ready skills and experience working on real projects, cumulating in a capstone course where you will work with industry on a project relating to a current local community crime problem.

You'll have the opportunity to apply for a professional placement experience throughout your program, and access one-on-one research mentoring by criminology experts through the Criminology Undergraduate Research Internship Program.


*#1 in Australia Law and Criminology, Tied position, 2023 ShanghaiRanking Global Ranking of Academic Subjects

My attendance during the program

Attendance information

In this program you can choose the number of courses you enrol in per trimester and the order in which you will enrol in these courses in most cases. Almost all the courses in this program are delivered in a variety of ways and you can choose how you wish to undertake a course with only a very small number of courses limited to on-campus delivery. If you enrol in an on-campus offering of a course you will be required to attend 2-3 hours of classes per course per week throughout the trimester.

If you enrol in an external offering of a course you will be provided course materials via Learning@Griffith. You will be required to use the internet or other electronic media during your enrolment in this course and access to a reliable computer with internet connection is required. There will be no requirement for on-campus attendance.

This program is also offered full-time and part-time through Open Universities Australia (OUA). As an OUA student, you are not required to study on-campus. You may complete this program entirely off-campus through Open Universities Australia. To be classed as a full-time student, you must enrol in at least three units per study period.

Student Income Support

To be classed as a full-time student, you are required to enrol in a minimum number of credit points each standard study period. The minimum credit points for full-time enrolment in this program is 30 credit points.

Trimester 1 and Trimester 2 are deemed standard study periods. As Trimester 3 is a non-standard study period, continuing students moving from one year to the next will not be required to study during this trimester to be eligible for student income support.

Domestic students who commence in Trimester 3 may be eligible for student income support from the onset of study provided they are enrolled full-time in this study period.

Please refer to the Australian Government website for more details.

My career opportunities

My career opportunities

You'll be equipped for a career in areas including policing, courts, corrections, working directly with offenders or victims in services within and beyond the criminal justice system, crime analysis, youth justice, criminological research, policy roles, law enforcement, and much more.

Placement requirements

Professional Practice requirements

Working with Children Check (Blue Card)

Students in this program MAY BE REQUIRED to undergo the Working with Children Check and be issued with a Blue Card before they undertake work experience or placements in professional settings.

Blue Card applications must be submitted online by the student via the Queensland Government Blue Card Services website. There is no fee for a student Blue Card.

What are the fees?

Commonwealth supported students

  • The indicative fee represents the expected average fee for an annual full-time study load (80 credit points). This is based on average study patterns across courses and the Australian Government's broad discipline areas (student contribution bands). A student's actual annual fee may vary in accordance with his or her choice of majors and electives. The Australian Government sets student contribution amounts on an annual basis.
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Fee-paying undergraduate (domestic) students

These fees are only applicable to domestic students who are not Commonwealth supported including:

  • Full-fee paying domestic students who commenced their program prior to 2009.
  • International students who have been approved to pay domestic tuition fees after obtaining Australian or New Zealand citizenship or permanent residency or a permanent humanitarian visa and who have not obtained a Commonwealth supported place.
Tuition fees
  • A fee-paying undergraduate student pays tuition fees.
  • Students are liable for tuition fees for the courses they are enrolled in as at the census date.
  • The tuition fee is charged according to the approved program fee for the trimester in which the student is enrolled.
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Program fees for the Bachelor of Criminology and Criminal Justice (1112)

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FEE-HELP

Eligible undergraduate fee-paying students may defer their tuition fees by taking out a FEE-HELP loan which is part of the Higher Education Loan Program (HELP). Payment of the loan is via the taxation system when income reaches a specified level.

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