Faculty: Faculty of Law
	School:  Faculty of Law
	Course Outline: See below
	Campus: Kensington Campus
	Career: Postgraduate
	Units of Credit: 6
	EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
	Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 4
	Enrolment Requirements:
	Prerequisite: LAWS1001, LAWS1011; Corequisite: LAWS2311; Excluded: CRIM2024, CRIM2026. Prerequisite: JURD7101, JURD7111; Corequisite: JURD7211; Excluded: CRIM2024, CRIM2026.
	Excluded: LAWS3105
	Fee Band: 1 (more info)
	Further Information: See Class Timetable

Description

Recommended Prior Knowledge

Course Objectives

• To study and critically reflect upon a range of materials and issues which arise out of what traditionally has been called penology, or the study of punishment
• To develop an understanding of the key processes involved in the field of penality (the development of policy analysis skills which are transferable and interdisciplinary intellectual skills)
• To improve student’s interdisciplinary capacities
• To enhance the ability to move between theoretical, legal, sociological, criminological and penological, and cultural sources and knowledges
• To enhance their abilities to produce a publishable quality piece of research work
• To develop and refine research and writing skills
• A capacity to construct an argument, both written and oral, which combines doctrinal and interdisciplinary research skills, detailed doctrinal disciplinary knowledge, and enhanced policy skills

Main Topics

• The phenomenon of mass imprisonment
• The "new punitiveness", sentencing and parole
• The courts, the law and prisoners rights
• Intractables and supermax prisons
• Indigenous imprisonment
• Women's imprisonment
• Immigration detention
• Prison privatisation

Assessment

Course Texts

• Brown, D. and Wilkie, M. (eds) Prisoners as Citizens (2002), The Federation Press: Sydney
• Bree Carlton, Imprisoning Resistance, Institute of Criminology Press: Sydney (2007)
• David Garland, The Culture of Control, Oxford Univ Press (2001)
• Bernie Matthews, Intractable, Pan Macmillan Aust (2006)
• John Pratt, Penal Populism, Routledge (2007)
• John Pratt, David Brown, Mark Brown, Simon Hallsworth, and Wayne Morrison (eds) The New Punitiveness, (2005) Willan Publishing (Available through The Federation Press in Sydney)

Resources