Transnational Policing and Human Rights - LAWS8013
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: Academic Program must be 9200 or 9210 or 9230 or 5740 or 9211 or 5211 or 9220 or 5750 or 9285 or 5285.
Excluded: JURD7506, JURD7713, LAWS8106
CSS Contribution Charge: 1 (more info)
Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule
Further Information: See Class Timetable
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Description
LLM Specialisation
Recommended Prior Knowledge
Course Objectives
- Critically analyse the growth of transnational policing
- Develop an understanding of how concepts of human rights might be relevant to criminology
- Contribute to inter-disciplinary research into an expanding area of policing
- Contribute to the development of critical criminological perspectives in areas such as risk, national security, victims and state crime
Main Topics
- What is transnational organized crime?
- The policing of transnational organized crime
- The War on Drugs
- The War on Human Smuggling/Trafficking
- The War on Terror
- Criminological Perspectives
Assessment
Essay synopsis and presentation 20%
Research essay (5,000 words) 70%