Crime and Social Policy
PostgraduateMAQ-PICX80892025
Previously MAQ-PICX889
Course information for 2025 intake View information for 2024 course intake
Drawing on your knowledge of Australian and international criminal justice practices and policies, formulate solutions to real-world crime problems. With a focus on police, courts and corrective services, evaluate current crime reduction strategies.
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Enrol by
- 16 Feb 2025
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 13 weeks
- Price from
- $4,155
- Upfront cost
- $0
- Loan available
- FEE-HELP available
Crime and Social Policy
About this subject
On successful completion of this subject, you will be able to:
- Critically analyse, evaluate and compare a range of applied criminological practices and policies
- Apply a synthesised understanding of contemporary criminology theories to explain the development of criminal issues of domestic or transnational significance
- Employ independent research skills and disciplinary knowledge to evaluate domestic and transnational criminal issues
- Effectively communicate advanced disciplinary knowledge in both written and oral formats
- Analyse and evaluate national and international criminal justice policy and their limitations.
- A week-by-week guide to the topics will be provided in the study materials.
The subject was formerly known as PICX889 Applied Criminology Practice and Policy
This unit offers an invaluable scholarly perspective to analyse the effectiveness of contemporary criminal justice practice and policies. This unit enables students to develop a criminological understanding of the operation of various facets of the criminal justice system, particularly police, courts and corrective services and their limitations. Students will critically evaluate crime reduction and prevention strategies currently employed both in Australia and overseas, and will formulate practical and effective solutions to real-world contemporary crime problems. This includes using official crime information and data to present and report on policy outcomes and agendas. Students will be able to critically understand the structure and functioning of the criminal justice system, evaluate criminal justice policies, design, develop crime prevention and reduction strategies as well as evaluate the efficacy and possibilities of alternative approaches to both crime prevention and incarceration.
- Participation (10%)
- Data critique (25%)
- Policy brief (25%)
- Essay (40%)
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Entry requirements
Part of a degree
To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:
Elective
- MAQ-CRM-MAS-2025 - Master of Criminology
Equivalent subjects
You should not enrol in this subject if you have successfully completed any of the following subject(s) because they are considered academically equivalent:
MAQ-PICX889 (Not currently available)
Others
NCCW (pre-2020 units) PICT889, PICX889
Pre-requisite Admission to MCrim or MSecStrategicStudMCrim or MIntellMCrim or MCyberSecMCrim or MCTerrorismMCrim
Additional requirements
- Other requirements - Students who have an Academic Standing of Suspension or Exclusion under Macquarie University's Academic Progression Policy are not permitted to enrol in OUA units offered by Macquarie University. Students with an Academic Standing of Suspension or Exclusion who have enrolled in units through OUA will be withdrawn.
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.
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Related degrees
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
PostgraduateMAQ-CRM-MAS