Course

Current Issues in Criminal Justice - JURD7376

Faculty: Faculty of Law

School: Faculty of Law

Course Outline: See below

Campus: Sydney

Career: Postgraduate

Units of Credit: 6

EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)

Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 2

Enrolment Requirements:

Pre-requisite: 36 UOC of JURD courses for students enrolled prior to 2013. For students enrolled after 2013, pre-requisite: 72 UOC of JURD courses.

Excluded: LAWS8076

CSS Contribution Charge: 3 (more info)

Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule

Further Information: See Class Timetable

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Description

This course examines shifting notions of crime and responsibility for crime within criminal justice. 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.


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
Course readings will be available for purchase from the UNSW Bookshop.

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.
Badabagan

Study Levels

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