Criminology is concerned not just with crime, but with the broader issues of social control and deviance and how these affect punishment and criminal justice.

You can study topics such as restorative justice, cybercrime, penology, gender, policing, prisons, cultural criminology, justice policies and Indigenous perspectives.

We welcome PhD research proposals in areas such as:

• Corrections, including popular representations of prisons
• Crime in popular culture, novels, television, and film
• Crimes of elite offenders, especially those with high IQ scores
• Criminalisation
• Criminological theory
• Critical and cultural criminology
• Graffiti and street art
• Indigenous criminology
• Indigenous jurisprudence
• Law and custom
• Māori and New Zealand criminal justice policy
• Mental health in prisons
• Penology and punishment theory, especially incarceration and capital punishment
• Power, deviance and control
• Prisoner reintegration, recidivism and desistance
• Self-report measures of crime
• Sentencing, especially the use of risk instruments in sentencing decisions
• Serial homicide, including its social construction
• Specialist/problem-solving courts
• The role of non-governmental organisations in criminal justice
• Young people, digital technology and their sexual lives