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Critical Criminology and Human Rights - CRIM3006 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Description
Subject Area: Criminology
The main topics to be covered in this course include:
Module: "Understanding Critical Criminology"
This elective provides an introduction to critical criminology. It is an introduction to the themes, ideas and issues which engage and motivate critical intellectuals in criminology. Critical criminology seeks to locate and understand the reasons for crime and criminal justice responses within wider structural and institutional contexts. The elective is designed to provide students with a grounding in the key concerns which inform critical criminological scholarship. This includes addressing theoretical problems around cultural production, class, postcolonialism and feminism. The course also explores specific matters of concern to critical criminology including penality and the growth of imprisonment, gender-based violence and masculinity, and various processes of criminalisation. Module: "State Crime and Human Rights" (Semester 2, 2011) This module draws on some of the material previously taught in the criminology elective Crime, Power and Human Rights (CRIM 2018). It provides an overview of the criminological debates about state crime as a means of discussing some of the wider concerns of critical criminology. The course introduces students to some of the issues associated with the establishment of an international system of criminal justice. It also introduces students to some of the contemporary research being undertaken by criminologists into organised human rights abuses committed by states. Topics covered include: war crimes; modern and colonial genocide; immigration detention; torture and rendition; natural distaster as state crime; the International Criminal Court and resistance to state crime. |