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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: 3 (more info)

Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule

Further Information: See Class Timetable

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Description

Focuses on policing as a set of social and legal practices and institutions, including beyond the public police. The approach is comparative and inter-disciplinary, drawing on a wide range of historical, socio-legal and criminological research. Policing is placed in its social and historical contexts by assessing conflicting interpretations of its history and of police public relations and the particular character policing in Australia. Topics include: 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, and the limits and possibilities of police reform in the wake of the Royal Commission into the NSW Police Service.

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%

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Study Levels

Undergraduate Study Postgraudate Study Postgraduate Research Study Non-Award Study

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