Overview
What is Criminology? The concepts of crime and the criminal; the nature of crime; the causes of crime; media and crime; race, gender and class issues in crime.
About this paper
| Paper title | Criminology |
|---|---|
| Subject | Law |
| EFTS | 0.1 |
| Points | 15 points |
| Teaching period | Not offered in 2025 (On campus) |
| Domestic Tuition Fees ( NZD ) | $774.00 |
| International Tuition Fees | Tuition Fees for international students are elsewhere on this website. |
- Prerequisite
- LAWS 201 and 66 further LAWS points
- Pre or Corequisite
- Any 200-level LAWS paper not already passed
- Restriction
- LAWS 310
- Limited to
- LLB, LLB(Hons)
- Notes
- Not all optional papers will be available in any given year.
- Contact
- law@otago.ac.nz
- More information link
- For more information view the Faculty of Law's website
- Teaching staff
To be confirmed when paper is next offered.
- Textbooks
- Course materials are provided by the Faculty.
- Graduate Attributes Emphasised
- Global perspective, Interdisciplinary perspective, Lifelong learning, Scholarship, Communication, Critical thinking, Cultural understanding, Information literacy, Research, Self-motivation.
View more information about Otago's graduate attributes. - Learning Outcomes
- Understand the discipline of criminology
- Critically examine the concept of crime and why crime is defined as it is
- Contrast several different definitions and concepts of crime indicating the strengths and weaknesses of each
- Describe the processes whereby images of crime are constructed and presented in the mass media
- Explain and critique a number of criminological perspectives
- Understand the concept of white collar crime by applying traditional theories of crime causation to it and assess whether this class of crime is treated differently