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


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.