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Critical Criminology and Human Rights - CRIM3006
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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: Enrolment in program 3422 and 72 uoc including CRIM2020, or enrolment in a major or minor in Criminology and 72 uoc overall including CRIM2020, or enrolment in program 4763 and 72 uoc overall
 
 
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.

Subject Area: Criminology

Course Aims

The primary intention of this course is to provide students with a higher level introduction to the key theoretical and public policy issues which inform Critical Criminology. A candidate who has successfully completed this course should be able to:

  • Understand the concept of critical criminology
  • Understand the key theoretical and policy issues that underpin critical criminology
  • Understand the relationship between criminal justice theory and policy
  • Demonstrate a more sophisticated understanding of criminological research
The main topics to be covered in this course include:
  • An introduction to Critical Criminology and issues of definition
  • Research methodologies and critical approaches
  • Social and political theory and criminology
  • Feminist criminologies
  • Edgework and the pleasure of crime
  • Criminalisation, racialisation and postcolonial theory
  • Conceptualising the role of the state in critical criminology
  • Criminologies of resistance
  • Globalisation and criminology
  • The role of critical criminologists as public intellectuals
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.

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