Get the tools essential to understanding the complexities of criminal justice issues and how they are shaped by larger social, political, economic, cultural, and historical contexts. With our uniquely interdisciplinary approach, you’ll get a strong foundation in the field of criminology and become a more engaged citizen.

Crime, criminality, and criminal justice are central concerns in contemporary Canadian society. York's Criminology program will provide you with an exceptional opportunity to pursue study in this evolving and expanding field.

Explore the ways in which concepts of crime, criminality and criminal justice have developed over time as you investigate how crime is understood legally, politically, economically and culturally.

You’ll benefit from teaching that draws on the connections between criminology and fields such as gender and cultural studies, immigration, global and transnational studies, surveillance, and business and finance. Our grads have gone on to careers in law enforcement, probation and the courts, conflict mediation, border control, immigration, law and more.