Course

Crime, Politics and the Media - CRIM2034

Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

School: School of Social Sciences

Course Outline: School of Social Sciences

Campus: Kensington Campus

Career: Undergraduate

Units of Credit: 6

EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)

Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3

Enrolment Requirements:

Prerequisite: 30 units of credit at Level 1 including CRIM1010 or CRIM1011

Excluded: CRIM2027

CSS Contribution Charge: 1 (more info)

Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule

Further Information: See Class Timetable

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Description

Subject Area: Criminology

Crime and justice issues dominate politics, the media and popular culture. This course looks critically at the development and nature of ‘law and order politics’ and the media's fascination with crime, both of which govern popular understandings of crime risks and threats, and appropriate policy responses to them. We consider how and why crime and justice have become such a source of fascination and a policy area on which elections can be won, with reference to numerous examples from contemporary politics, news media and popular culture. For the course assessments, students will be asked to identify their own crime/criminal justice issue and develop an original analysis of how that issue is constructed in politics and/or news and entertainment media.


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