The department aims to study crime and criminal behavior from a scientific perspective, while also critically analyzing such events in the societal context of Bangladesh. Criminology in a developing country like Bangladesh requires the discipline to be empirical, data-driven, and policy relevant. The department of Criminology intends to provide its students with knowledge and tools that will ignite critical thinking and enable them to develop new crime theories, develop and modernize surveys on criminal victimization, analyze crime trends, understand the nature of implementation of some of the existing laws, application of the due process of law in law enforcement and the judiciary development and the methods and challenges of crime preventions. In accomplishing the goal, the department has introduced many contemporary courses to investigate crime cause and prevent criminal activities in Bangladesh.