Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) Canada 2016

45. - Social sciences

This series comprises instructional programs that focus on the systematic study of social systems, social institutions, and social behaviour.

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.

• Illustrative example(s)

  • applied criminology
  • criminal deviance
  • criminology

  All examples

• Inclusion(s)

  • victimology

• Exclusion(s)

  • corrections(43.0102)
  • criminal justice studies(43.0104)
  • criminal law (except graduate level)(22.0101)
  • criminal psychology(42.2812)
  • criminalistics(43.0111)
  • forensic science(43.0106)
  • psychosociology(42.2707)