Variant of CIP 2000 - NGS University-level Historical Groupings

2 - Social Sciences, Psychology and Law

22 - Criminal Justice and Criminology

45.04 - Criminology

This subseries comprises instructional program class 45.0401.

45.0401 - Criminology

This instructional program class comprises any program that focuses on the systematic study of crime as a sociopathological phenomenon, the behaviour of criminals, and the social institutions evolved to respond to crime. These programs include courses in the theory of crime, psychological and social bases of criminal behaviour, social value systems and the theory of punishment, criminal law and criminal justice systems, penology, rehabilitation and recidivism, studies of specific types of crime, social attitudes and policy, and applications to specific issues in law enforcement administration and policy.

• Example Program Names:

  • Applied criminology
  • Criminal deviance
  • Criminology

• Exclusion

  • Criminal law (except graduate level)(22.0101)
  • Psychosociology(42.1601)
  • Criminal psychology(42.2601)
  • Corrections(43.0102)
  • Criminal justice studies(43.0104)
  • Forensic science(43.0106)
  • Criminalistics(43.0111)