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Course Credit: 4

The purpose of this course is to provide knowledge on the main theoretical accounts that explain the underlying causes of criminal behaviours. We will highlight and explore various theories of crime causation. Particularly, we will examine how individual choices, socialization experiences, biological factors and our social structure affect criminal behaviours. We begin with an overview of the early classical and positivist foundations of criminological thought and then move on to discuss more recent extensions of anomie, differential associations, social control, social disorganization, routine activities, deterrence, developmental and other theories.

Course Credit: 4

This course covers univariate statistics, bivariate techniques, and one or two multivariate statistical techniques. The aim of the course is to develop basic understanding of the role of statistics in criminal justice research, know the uses of some statistical techniques, and know which types of techniques are appropriate for what types of data. In some parts of the course will cover SPSS or R (statistical software packages). It will be covering basics of how to use SPSS/R, but students are expected to learn these software packages.

Course Credit: 4

This course will address the various disciplines within the forensic sciences. Specifically, this course will focus on the application of the medical and natural sciences to forensics. The development of the medical examiner, coroner, and crime laboratory systems within the Bangladesh will be discussed as well as the scientific and non-scientific methods used to establish human identity, and the pathological conditions commonly found in forensic casework.

Course Credit: 4

This course is designed as an in-depth examination of the historical and contemporary use of punishment, social control and incarceration in Bangladesh and beyond. The course focuses on the philosophies, practices and procedures of correctional institutions and the people housed and working within them. An important premise of the course is that social conditions both effect and are effected by societal choices regarding what is right and wrong, moral and immoral, good and bad and worthy of punishment or not.

Course Credit: 4

Students will know about the contemporary issues related to environment and crime (i.e. globalization and crime, political economy of environmental crime, environmental hazards, poverty and crime, industrialization and crime, Urbanization and crime). Policy related issues for environment and crime will also be discussed from theoretical and practical points of view.

Course Credit: 4

This course is mainly design to explain the terrorist activities and their consequences in domestic and international level in contemporary globalized world. Students will learn from the aforementioned course is about definitional issues related to terrorism, history, political economy and nature of terrrorism, terrrorist organization and incidences, socio-psychological factores of developing terrrorism, typologies, theories of war aggression and terrrorism.Additionally, they will know about islamizatin and Christianization process of present world and fundamentalism in relations to Bangladesh. The issues related to terrorism and security issues (i.e.globalization and terrorism, media and terrrorist, images, drugs, and terrrorism, Bioterrorism and Sucide bombing, terrorism and strategies of internationsl security) will also be discussed from theoretical and practical points of view.

Course Credit: 4

The comparative approach helps students realize that we can learn to develop efficiency of any system by comparing it with other systems. In addition, what approach for law enforcement may work in one system may not work in the other. Systematic comparisons of criminal justice systems should provide concerned candidates help in understanding what works or does not work depends on circumstances and cultural contexts. This course provides the graduates insight into ways of evaluating our own criminal justice practices by enhancing the scope of planning to increase their efficiency.

Course Credit: 4

This course is designed to provide a systematic introduction to the study of gender in criminology and criminal justice. The course framework and readings emphasize sociological frameworks brought to bear in the study of gender, emphasizing the social structures of gender, social constructions of gender, symbolic meaning systems, and intersections of race, class and gender. We will examine criminological theory, and the impact and nature of gender in crime commission, criminal justice processing, and the employment of women in the criminal justice system.

Course Credit: 4

The aim of the course is to provide students with the methodological skills necessary for them to carry out independent research. Throughout the year, methodological and design considerations are integrated with statistical techniques. Statistical theory is not emphasised; instead, students are trained to be consumers and users of statistics. Advanced Research Methods can be divided into three components. Over the duration of the semester students will engage in topics including effect size measures and their associated confidence intervals, power analysis, clinical significance, advanced analysis of variance, regression modelling and regression diagnostics, bootstrapping, and dealing with missing data. Qualitative methods are considered briefly.

Course Credit: 4

This course explores how a "networked" world has bred new crimes and new responses, and investigates how information and communication technology (ICT) has become a tool, a target, and a place of criminal activity and national security threats, as well as a mechanism of response. This course addresses such questions as how emerging technologies challenge existing laws and criminal procedures; how nation-states regulate criminal conduct across traditional geographic and political boundaries; what reasonable expectations of privacy are in cyberspace; and how control is shifting from traditional mechanisms of law enforcement to new regulatory regimes, including technology.

Course Credit: 4

The goal of this course is to critically examine how consumption society shapes the experience of living in urban spaces, and how the politics of commoditised space and experience shape crime policy. We will consider the nexus of crime, culture, consumption and the aesthetics of the city. In doing so, students are expected to engage with how these theories manifest in the rationalisation processes of imagining the city. In particular, students will explore the Dhaka City and present case studies that reflect an engagement with the course materials.

Course Credit: 4

Genocide is a subject that has numerous angles from which one can approach, investigate and interpret it. Each field offers its own theories and explanations of genocide. This course is methodically designed to provide an advanced understanding and theoretical overview of the topic Genocide and its different issues. It covers selected classical and contemporary dynamics related to genocide with a particular focus on genocide prevention. Theorizing genocide is not an easy task. No theory will be able to explain every instance of genocide. But in this course, we will try to better understand the underlying causes in order to respond and perhaps even prevent genocide.

Course Credit: 4

This course will provide an overview of the nature of youth delinquency, including its causes and correlates, as well as the current strategies for preventing and controlling its occurrence. Moreover, this course offers an opportunity to examine laws, policies and practices that impact youth in conflict with the law under criminal justice systems. We will explore contemporary issues addressed by attorneys and advocates protecting the rights of youth in these systems through readings, class discussion, in-class role playing exercises, and guest lectures.

Course Credit: 4

This is a course about substantive criminal law in Bangladesh. The objectives are to prepare students for criminal practice and to provide another context wherein students can learn and apply basic skills that will enable them to 鈥渢hink like a lawyer鈥� in any area of law and Criminology. A significant portion of the course will be devoted to issues of ethics and professionalism.

Course Credit: 4

All the students of the department will sit for a comprehensive examination. The question of the exam will be asked on the basis of various themes covered by all the courses taught in the B.Sc. (Hons) level. Again they will appear at the viva voce committee.

Course Credit: 4

Students will be allowed to conduct a thesis on a topic derived from all the courses taught in Master program if any student obtains CGPA 3.5 in BSS (Honors) in Criminology under the department. The topic of the study will be chosen by the student and approved by the Department. Respective student will prepare a research proposal and submit it to the Chairman of the Department. The Chairman of the Department will discuss with the teachers of the Department and assign each student to a particular teacher who will be supervisor of the research. The student will submit the thesis to the Department. Students must have to face the examination committee to defend through a viva consisting of 20 marks. The thesis will be graded as per university rule.