Monash University: University Handbooks: Postgraduate Handbook 2001: Subjects indexed by faculty
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Justice studies


The discipline of justice studies involves academic study of the criminal justice system and, in some cases, extends to general social justice studies. As such, legitimate areas for study in justice studies include, for example, police and policing issues, crime prevention, social justice and crime, as well as victim-offender mediation, shame and reintegration of offenders, etc.
Academic strengths relevant to the discipline at Monash University include police-government relations, police ethics and accountability, civilian oversight of police, victims and victimisation, crime prevention, politics of policing protests, public order policing, crime fiction, mediation and the courts.

Research degrees

To gain entry into the masters by research or PhD, students are required to have an honours grade of H2A. Students are also required to have obtained a grade of distinction or above for the research component of the masters qualifying.
Also see entry for ´Police studies' and http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/prospective/postgraduate/disciplines/

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