1999 Arts Handbook - Police and justice studies

Police and justice studies

Centre for Police and Justice Studies
- Members of staff and their fields of special interest
- Master of Arts in police studies by research

Centre for Police and Justice Studies

Coordinator: Associate Professor Arthur Veno
The Centre for Police and Justice Studies offers opportunities for postgraduate research in the following main areas: community-based corrections; police accountability; police ethics; police-government relations; policing of industrial relations; prisons; crime prevention.

Members of staff and their fields of special interest

DAVID BAKER Policing of industrial relations, history of Australian policing.
SCOTT BEATTIE Community justice, law and justice, criminology.
BARRY ELLEM Prisons, community-based corrections, privatisation of prisons, management and drugs in prisons.
COLLEEN LEWIS Police accountability, police ethics and police-government relations.
ARTHUR VENO Crime prevention strategies and victimology.

Master of Arts in police studies by research

Course code: 0017
Course fee: local students HECS; international students (FT) $A12,000 pa
Coordinator: To be advised
Candidates for the MA in police and justice studies should normally have obtained an honours degree in police studies (second class honours division A), or an equivalent course in a related discipline, with at least second class honours division A.
The MA in police and justice studies may be taken by the submission of a thesis (the normal length is 40,000-60,000 words) on a topic approved by the head of the department, at the end of a period of supervised study and research (between twelve and twenty-four months for full-time candidates, or between twenty-four and forty-eight months for part-time candidates).