Graduate Diploma of Criminology
2025 Deakin University Handbook
| Year | 2025 course information |
|---|---|
| Award granted | Graduate Diploma of Criminology |
| Deakin course code | A604 |
| Faculty | Faculty of Arts and Education |
| Campus | This course is available as an exit only option from A706 Master of Criminology |
| Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) recognition | The award conferred upon completion is recognised in the Australian Qualifications Framework at Level 8 |
This course is an A704 Master of Criminology exit only option. | |
Course sub-headings
- Course overview
- Career opportunities
- Course Learning Outcomes
- Course rules
- Course structure
- Fees and charges
Course overview
The Graduate Diploma of Criminology will provide students with advanced theoretical and practical knowledge of crime and criminal justice. It critically engages with existing criminological discourses and challenges students to critique contemporary approaches to criminal justice policy, practice and prevention.
Career opportunities
The course is designed to be authentic and prepare students to enter or advance in a broad range of careers related to crime policy, criminal justice, law enforcement and security. Career opportunities exist at all levels of government - local, state, federal - and with non-government and international organisations.
For more information go to DeakinTALENT.
Course Learning Outcomes
| Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes | Course Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|
| Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities | Use advanced and integrated knowledge of criminological scholarship to review and analyse key issues in the definitions, history, causes, harms and prevention of different types of crime and criminal behaviour within Australia and internationally |
| Communication | Communicate the findings and analyses of criminological theories, concepts and their application to real-world contexts, in a broad range of written, oral and digital formats, to different audiences associated with or engaged in criminological activities |
| Digital literacy | Employ a broad range of digital technologies to communicate types and forms of crime and appropriate prevention responses to a diverse range of audiences, including the public and individuals and groups associated with or engaged in criminal justice policy and practice |
| Critical thinking | Exercise independent and critical judgement to organise, synthesise and evaluate complex theoretical approaches to defining and explaining crime and criminal behaviour in order to make recommendations to improve current policies and practices that address crime and criminal behaviour |
| Problem solving | Analyse differing perspectives and approaches to preventing and responding to crime and criminal behaviour in a variety of contexts and employ creative problem solving skills to investigate complex problems in a systematic manner as well as to generate creative, contextually aware solutions to those problems |
| Self-management | n/a |
| Teamwork | Collaborate productively in teams to research and evaluate explanations for and responses to complex issues in crime and criminal behaviour in a variety of national and international contexts |
| Global citizenship | Analyse and respond to criminological issues, in domestic, regional and international contexts, as a reflective scholar and practitioner, taking into account cultural and socio-economic diversity, social and environmental responsibility and adherence to professional and ethical standards in a variety of contexts |
Approved at Faculty Board March 2020
Course rules
To complete the Graduate Diploma of Criminology students must pass 8 credit points and meet the following course rules to be eligible to graduate:
- DAI001 Academic Integrity and Respect at Deakin (0-credit-point compulsory unit) in their first study period
- 2 credit points of core units
- 6 credit points of course electives
Students are required to meet the University's academic progress and conduct requirements. See the enrolment codes and terminology to help make sense of the University’s vocabulary.
Course structure
Core units
| ACR701 | Crime and Innovative Justice |
| ACR703 | Critical Criminological Perspectives |
| DAI001 | Academic Integrity and Respect at Deakin [0 credit point unit] |
Elective units
Plus 6 credit points of electives from:
| ACR702 | Criminological Policy and Policymaking |
| ACR704 | Public Criminology and Criminological Knowledge |
| ACR705 | Digital Surveillance, Law Enforcement and Civil Liberties |
| ACR706 | Environmental Crime and Regulation |
| ACR707 | Populism and Policing Futures |
| ACR709 | Global Crime, Prevention and Responses |
| ACR712 | The Practice of Justice |
| ACR713 | Cybercrime: Victims and Offenders |
| AIR726 | Human Rights in World Politics |
| AIX706 | Research Design |
ACR708 The Carceral Society and Prison Futures [No longer available for enrolment]
ACR710 Environmental Offenders And Victims [No longer available for enrolment]
Further information
Student Central can help you with course planning, choosing the right units and explaining course rules and requirements.
- Contact Student Central
Fees and charges
Fees and charges vary depending on the type of fee place you hold, your course, your commencement year, the units you choose to study, and their study discipline or your study load.
Tuition fees increase at the beginning of each calendar year and all fees quoted are in Australian dollars ($AUD). Tuition fees do not include textbooks, computer equipment or software, other equipment or costs such as mandatory checks, travel and stationery.
For further information regarding tuition fees, other fees and charges, invoice due dates, withdrawal dates, payment methods visit our Current students website.