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- This double degree integrates two highly sought after areas.
- Explore fascinating topics including: crimes of violence, cyber crime, domestic violence, official corruption, death investigation and transnational crime.
- Learn how to understand human behaviours, and apply your skills in challenging situations where knowledge of the human response is essential.
Highlights
- This double degree integrates two highly sought after areas.
- Explore fascinating topics including: crimes of violence, cyber crime, domestic violence, official corruption, death investigation and transnational crime.
- Learn how to understand human behaviours, and apply your skills in challenging situations where knowledge of the human response is essential.
- This course is accredited by the Australian Psychology Accreditation Council.
Why choose this course?
This double degree integrates two highly sought-after areas. You will learn how to understand human behaviours and apply your skills in challenging situations. You can combine justice, criminology, policing, policy, politics and psychology in one package, and explore topics including crimes of violence, cyber crime, official corruption, youth justice, crime prevention, intelligence and security, drugs and crime, domestic violence, sex and crime, organised crime, terrorism and death investigation. In the justice component, you can choose a major in either policy and politics or criminology and policing. In the psychology degree, you can take the first step towards a career as a registered psychologist. The two degrees have many related study areas such as addictive behaviours, forensic psychology and traffic psychology.
In the justice degree, choose from two majors—policy and politics or criminology and policing. The policy and politics major offers you the opportunity to learn policy analysis and the intricacies of how government officers research, analyse, recommend and develop policies in the justice sphere. Particularly, it gives you an insight into how policy is implemented and critiqued, and evolves through government and its departments.
The criminology and policing major details punishment and penal policy as well as crime research methods with your choice of units in eco crime, sex crime, death investigation, crime in pop culture, drugs and intelligence, among others.
Explore this course
It’s not easy to look a repeat youth offender in the eye and try to help them—it takes conviction. This double degree will equip you with the kind of thinking you need to work in youth justice, probation, community justice, outreach or policing—careers with heart. If you want to make a difference and pursue a career where no two days are the same, this is the course for you. The possibilities are endless, for building a stimulating career in the community.
Flexible delivery
All the justice lectures are recorded and study materials available online so you can access resources at any time and fit study into your lifestyle.
Careers and outcomes
You will have the unique ability to apply psychological principles to the field of justice. With an understanding of the most recent theory and practice of social justice, and skills in social, developmental, cognitive and abnormal psychology, you will have a pathway to careers in public policy development, criminal justice institutions such as police, security and intelligence agencies, corrections, rehabilitation services, and family services.
Justice offers extensive career paths in areas that make a real difference in our community. Career pathways include policing, customs, community outreach, forensic investigation, mediation, outreach programs, social work, intelligence, defence, insurance and banking investigation, youth justice, Indigenous justice, community legal services, and policy and adviser roles within a range of state and federal government departments.
Past graduates have developed successful careers in state and federal law enforcement, correctional services, private security, defence services, foreign aid programs, and customs, and have worked on social and justice policies for government and non-government organisations. Others have become criminologists, contributed to women’s, youth and children’s advocacy, or worked in the areas of human rights and antidiscrimination.
Careers and outcomes
You will have the unique ability to apply psychological principles to the field of justice. With an understanding of the most recent theory and practice of social justice, and skills in social, developmental, cognitive and abnormal psychology, you will have a pathway to careers in public policy development, criminal justice institutions such as police, security and intelligence agencies, corrections, rehabilitation services, and family services.
Justice offers extensive career paths in areas that make a real difference in our community. Career pathways include policing, customs, community outreach, forensic investigation, mediation, outreach programs, social work, intelligence, defence, insurance and banking investigation, youth justice, Indigenous justice, community legal services, and policy and adviser roles within a range of state and federal government departments.
Past graduates have developed successful careers in state and federal law enforcement, correctional services, private security, defence services, foreign aid programs, customs, Australian Security Intelligence Organisation and Scotland Yard, and have worked on social and justice policies for government and non-government organisations. Others have become criminologists, contributed to women’s, youth and children’s advocacy, or worked in the areas of human rights and antidiscrimination.
Professional recognition
The Bachelor of Behavioural Science (Psychology) is accredited by the Australian Psychology Accreditation Council (APAC). To pursue a career in a professional area of psychology, you will need to undertake further study to gain registration with the Psychology Board of Australia.
Possible careers
- Case manager
- Change manager
- Child protection officer
- Child and family counsellor
- Clinical psychologist
- Community corrections officer
- Community worker
- Corrective services officer
- Counsellor
- Criminologist
- Customs officer
- Developmental psychologist
- Face to face counsellor
- Family services officer
- Forensic psychologist
- Guidance officer
- Health psychologist
- Police officer (australian federal)
- Police officer (state)
- Policy officer
- Policy analyst
- Psychologist
- Public health officer
- School counsellor
- School psychologist
- Youth worker
Students must complete a total of 384 credit points consisting of three components:
Behavioural Science (Psychology) component requires a total of 180 credit points as follows:
- 168 credit points of core units
- 12 credit points of psychology electives*
*Students wishing to undertake the Psychology Honours course must complete PYB350 Advanced Statistical Analysis as one of their elective units. PYB350 is compulsory for entry to fourth year psychology programs.
Justice component requires a total of 180 credit points as follows:
- 84 credit points of core units
- 96 credit points of Study Area A (8 units = 96 credit points) (Select either Criminology and Policing or Policy and Politics major)
QUT You component is comprised of 24 credit points of QUT You units.
First year comprises foundation units to give you a solid overview of each area. You will study introductory psychology, criminology and policing, interpersonal processes and skills, justice and society, and professional academic skills.
In second year you will expand your knowledge in social and organisational psychology, research analysis, social ethics, developmental psychology and counselling. You will also develop an understanding of the criminal justice system, and learn about forensic psychology and how it relates to law.
During the third year you will complete compulsory and elective psychology units, select your chosen justice major and complete the relevant justice major core units.
In fourth year combine four compulsory units with the other four units of your choice. Compulsory units include physiological psychology, psychopathology and Advanced Statistical Analysis . You will complete two core units from your Justice majors and select two major elective units.
Students must complete a total of 384 credit points consisting of three components:
Behavioural Science (Psychology) component requires a total of 180 credit points as follows:
- 168 credit points of core units
- 12 credit points of psychology electives*
*Students wishing to undertake the Psychology Honours course must complete PYB350 Advanced Statistical Analysis as one of their elective units. PYB350 is compulsory for entry to fourth year psychology programs.
Justice component requires a total of 180 credit points as follows:
- 84 credit points of core units
- 96 credit points of Study Area A (8 units = 96 credit points) (Select either Criminology and Policing or Policy and Politics major)
QUT You component is comprised of 24 credit points of QUT You units.
First year comprises foundation units to give you a solid overview of each area. You will study introductory psychology, criminology and policing, interpersonal processes and skills, justice and society, and professional academic skills.
In second year you will expand your knowledge in social and organisational psychology, research analysis, social ethics, developmental psychology and counselling. You will also develop an understanding of the criminal justice system, and learn about forensic psychology and how it relates to law.
During the third year you will complete compulsory and elective psychology units, select your chosen justice major and complete the relevant justice major core units.
In fourth year combine four compulsory units with the other four units of your choice. Compulsory units include physiological psychology, psychopathology and Advanced Statistical Analysis . You will complete two core units from your Justice majors and select two major elective units.
Your actual fees may vary depending on which units you choose. We review fees annually, and they may be subject to increases.
2025 fees
2025: CSP $12,500 per year full-time (96 credit points)
2025 fees
2025: $36,500 per year full-time (96 credit points)
2024 fees
2024: CSP $12,200 per year full-time (96 credit points)
2024 fees
2024: $33,700 per year full-time (96 credit points)
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