Department of Criminology & Forensic Science  


PROGRAMME SPECIFIC OUTCOMES
 
  1. Identify the key stages of criminology and  criminal justice processes, and at each stage, locate the core institutions involved and the key roles performed by those who inhabit them.
  2. Summarize and differentiate the major theories about crime, criminalization, and victimization. Correction and punishments, then apply theories to critically analyze contemporary injustices.
  3. Describe the differences between popular perceptions of criminal justice institutions and the lived realities of victims, criminals, and justice workers, criminogenic needs of offenders correction.
  4. Recognize how social forces affect the perception and pursuit of justice in India and around the world, factors contributing to commission of crime, preventive measures of crime.
  5. Critically assess how power and privilege impact law making and law enforcement, nepotism politicians and people in higher socio economic status.
  6. Use criminological and forensic theories, methods, or investigative techniques to assess patterns of crime, criminalization, and victimization and to establish justification for a course of action.
  7. Through written or oral communication, describe differential impacts on diverse members of society and provide sustained, focused justifications for the value of diversity for a more just society. Determines cause for offences through scientific evaluation of crime.
  8. Apply the Laboratory skills to participate in the career needs of Forensic community. Become trained in the laboratory skills of different division of Forensic Science. Be able to work with different Research &Development organizations across the world.
  9. Apply collaborative skills, ethical reasoning, analytic skills, research technique and knowledge about crime to address an injustice, and advance causes of justice.

Pursue advanced professional training and/or a meaningful justice-related career in law enforcement agencies, private detectives, forensic science laboratory, vigilance department, legal advocacy etc.

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