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Current Issues in Criminal Justice - LAWS8076
Badabagan

 
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: 2
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prerequisite: Academic Program must be either 9200, 9210, 9230, 5740, 9285,5285
 
 
Excluded: JURD7376
 
 
CSS Contribution Charge:Band 3 (more info)
 
 
Tuition Fee:See Tuition Fee Schedule
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description

This course examines shifting notions of crime and responsibility for crime within criminal justice. Drawing on Lucia Zedner’s work, it considers multiple meanings of criminal justice, such as in governing law and order, as dispute resolution, and in managing risk. It encourages a critical appreciation of criminal justice system responses to crime and engages with the need for criminal justice policy to respond to economic, social, political and cultural issues. The course will examine selected recent developments and ongoing debates in criminal justice.

LLM Specialisations

Recommended Prior Knowledge

None

Course Objectives

  • To examine shifting notions of responsibility for crime and crime control;
  • To apply theoretical insights to the analysis of criminal justice;
  • To examine new developments and contemporary debates in criminal justice;
  • To critically examine criminal justice policy;
  • To analyse influences on the creation of the current crime control agenda.

Main Topics

  • Bail and other pre-trial developments;
  • Compulsory treatment;
  • Specialised courts;
  • Restorative justice and other forms of alternative justice;
  • Private and hybrid forms of security;
  • The move towards ‘pre-crime’.

Assessment

Seminar presentation and paper – 2,000 words (40%)
Research essay - 4,000 words (60%)

Course Texts

Prescribed
None

Recommended
Zedner, L (2004) Criminal Justice Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Resources

Refer to the course outline which will be provided by the lecturer at the beginning of the relevant semester.

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