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Media, Crime and Criminal Justice - CRIM2027
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Course Outline: Contact School
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prerequisite: 30 units of credit at Level 1 including CRIM1010 or CRIM1011
 
 
CSS Contribution Charge:Band 1 (more info)
 
   
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
  

Description



This is a shelf course. A shelf course comprises a number of modules related to this broad area of study. Each module is a separate semester of study in this area and is offered in rotation. You can study TWO modules but you cannot study the same module twice.


Module: "Media, Crime and Policy"
This elective provides an introduction to the relationship between media and criminal justice policy. Using an interdisciplinary approach students will examine key theories on the relationship between crime, criminal justice agencies, policy and the media as well as gaining practical policy analysis skills, and an introduction to basic journalistic techniques for different forms of media.

Module: "Crime, Politics and the Media" (Semester 1, 2011)
Crime and justice issues dominate politics, the media and popular culture. This course looks critically at the development and nature of ‘law and order politics’ and the media's fascination with crime, both of which govern popular understandings of crime risks and threats, and appropriate policy responses to them. We consider how and why crime and justice have become such a source of fascination and a policy area on which elections can be won, with reference to numerous examples from contemporary politics, news media and popular culture. For the course assessments, students will be asked to identify their own crime/criminal justice issue and develop an original analysis of how that issue is constructed in politics and/or news and entertainment media.

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