UNSW Handbook Course - Gender, Race and Justice

Gender, Race and Justice - LAWS8075


	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:
	Pre-requisite: Academic Program must be 9200 or 9210 or 9230 or 5740 or 9285 or 5285 or 9220 or 5750.
	Excluded: JURD7475
	CSS Contribution Charge:Band 3 (more info)
	Tuition Fee:See Tuition Fee Schedule
	Further Information: See Class Timetable

Description

This inter-disciplinary course examines: the construction of knowledge about gender, race and ethnicity with reference to criminal justice; the legacy of colonial relations in Australia for Indigenous peoples and on criminal justice practices; and, how ideas about ethnicity and migration relate to gendered and racialised understandings of crime and within criminal justice. The approach is comparative and inter-disciplinary, drawing on a wide range of historical, socio-legal and criminological research.

LLM Specialisations

Criminal Justice and Criminology

Recommended Prior Knowledge

None

Course Objectives

To provide a theoretical understanding of the concepts of gender and race/ethnicity and their relationship to crime and criminal justice
To provide an understanding of the empirical data on the relationship between gender, race and crime control
To encourage students to develop a critical analysis of the criminal justice system by focusing on gender, race and their intersection
To encourage students to develop their skills in independent, inter-disciplinary research

Main Topics

Media representations of crime
Gendered and raced patterns in violence
Global mobility, mogration and trafficking
Policing
Punishment
Developments in restorative justice Indigenous justice and other alternative justice practices

Assessment

Class Participation 10%
Seminar presentation and paper 2000 words (30%)
Research essay 4,000 words (60%)

Course Texts

Required Readings will be available on Blackboard.

Resources

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

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