Policing - JURD7789
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: 3
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: CRIM2014, LAWS3789, LAWX1789
CSS Contribution Charge: 1 (more info)
Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule
Further Information: See Class Timetable
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Description
Course Objectives
- To introduce students to the inter-disciplinary field of policing studies
- To encourage critical examination of policing in Australia, within and beyond the public police
- To develop inter-disciplinary study in criminology and socio-legal areas
Main Topics
- histories of policing
- police culture
- the policing of social divisions
- police corruption and deviance
- the policing of public order
- the policing of young people
- drug policing
- fictional representations of policing
- developments in community
- private, hybrid and international policing
- the limits and possibilities of police reform in the wake of the Royal Commission into the NSW Police Service
Assessment
Class performance - 10%
Seminar paper and presentation - 20%
Research essay (4,000 words) - 70%
Course Texts
The course is based on materials to be provided. Order from UNSW Bookshop.
Students wishing to have an introduction to the issues covered by the cuourse should consult:
- Newburn, T. (ed) (2003) Handbook of Policing (Cullompton, UK: Willan)
- Newburn, T. (ed) (2005) Policing: Key Readings (Cullompton, UK: Willan)
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