The Minor aims at providing students an understanding of how the legal system responds to crime and criminals through laws and criminal justice institutions and offers an in-depth focus on the criminal phenomenon across cultures and time.

Students are given the opportunity to become familiar with basic legal principles and justice mechanisms and to follow the process of making laws, breaking of laws and society’s responses to crime and justice in various contexts.

The successful completion of the minor will allow students to critically consider what causes crime, how law is enforced and how justice is delivered on national and international levels and to analyze contemporary issues regarding crime and justice.   

The Crime, Law and Justice Minor is addressed to students who have a special interest in the areas of criminal law and the criminal justice system, as well as in the ways in which legal issues affect society.

The Minor is especially designed to equip students pursuing post-graduate studies in the areas of criminology, criminal justice, sociology, law, psychology, or forensics.