Course

Gender, Race and Justice - JURD7475

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: LAWS8075

CSS Contribution Charge: 3 (more info)

Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule

Further Information: See Class Timetable

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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.

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.
More information can be found on the Course Outline Website.
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