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Course description

CRIM7000 provides an overview of the major approaches to understanding criminal behaviour, and how these approaches help us understand and respond to particular crime problems. This course focusses on issues such as: What is criminology? What is crime? How much crime is there in Australia? Who is at most risk of being a victim of crime? How do we measure crime? What are the major approaches to explaining crime? What can inhibit criminal behaviour? How does participation in crime change over the life-course? How might criminological knowledge impact the prevention of crime and the development of crime and justice policies? This course is designed to broadly survey how we study criminal behaviour, provide insights into different issues studied in criminology, and prepare students (by introducing foundational concepts) for more advanced study in cybercrime.

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