Criminology is the scientific study of crime, including its causes, responses by law enforcement, and methods of prevention. It is a sub-group of sociology, which is the scientific study of social behavior.
There are many fields of study that are used in the field of criminology, including biology, statistics, psychology, psychiatry, economics, and anthropology. Criminology has sub-groups, namely:
Penology: the study of prisons and prison systems
Bio criminology: the study of the biological basis of criminal behavior
Feminist criminology: the study of women and crime
Criminalistics: the study of crime detection
Universities Offering Criminology as a course of Study BAYERO BAYERO – Bayero University, Kano
CALEB – Caleb University, Imota
Federal University, Dutse, Jigawa State
University Of Ilorin, Ilorin
University Of Jos, Jos
Chrisland University, Owode, Ogun State.
POLAC – Nigerian Police Academy, Wudil,
Where You can work as Graduate of criminology
When you have graduated from any of the school above, you can work in the following Institutions,
Police force, Army, Navy, prisons, security personel, court of justice and so on.
What kind of Job you can Apply for as a criminology graduate
You can work as a police officer, as a prison warden, detective, naval office, Army officer, security officer and so on.
Note: This is as posted as research for all accredited schools for studying Criminology.
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