Master of Arts in Sociology - Crime and Social Control

The Department of Sociology and Anthropology has been offering a Master's in Sociology since 1967 and continues to attract graduate students of the highest caliber from across the country and around the world. With both thesis and course-based options available, our MA program allows students to choose the route best suited to their academic and other career aspirations.
The field of Crime and Social Control reflects sociological interests into how crime is defined, measured, explained and reacted to by society. Within this field students will be exposed to scholarly material on a broad range of topics including: cyberbullying, victimization, legal responses to homelessness, intimate partner violence, drug policy, school violence, feminist criminology, critical criminology, restorative justice, sociology of risk, policing, the social construction of crime, inmate re-integration, youth justice, wrongful convictions, and life course criminology.

Applicants must possess an honours BA degree (4 years) or its equivalent with a minimum B+ average in the final two undergraduate years.

Students who do not meet departmental requirements (e.g., students whose undergraduate degree does not include basic courses in Sociology), may be admitted provisionally and required to complete appropriate make-up courses from offerings in the undergraduate program.. International English Language Testing System (Academic) (IELTS) 6.5 , Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) and (TOEFL Special Home Edition (iBT)) 89 A minimum score of 21 must be achieved in each of the four categories (listening, speaking, reading, writing)
paper based- minimum score of 600