Two-Year Part Time M.Soc. It has not experienced the high levels of violence found in other city-states and societies. These questions and many others are the central issues in the Department of Sociology's unique part-time two year postgraduate programme leading to a Master of Social Sciences degree in Criminology.
Criminology is the multi-disciplinary study of crime, order and social control.
As a field of study it includes a number of 'sub-specialities' such as penology, victimology, forensic psychology, justice administration, delinquency, crime prevention and policing. The causes of deviance and crime among different groups, juveniles, adults, men, and women constitutes one of the most important areas of investigation and draws from sociology, psychology, social work and psychiatry. Criminology is also concerned with the treatment and processing of offenders, from the first point of contact with the police through to the courts, sentencing, corrections and beyond. The programme also provides the foundation for advanced research degree studies in the discipline. The programme draws from the special contributions that the social sciences make to the understanding of crime and deviance.