UNSW Handbook Course - Disability in the Criminal Justice System

Disability in the Criminal Justice System - CRIM2032


	Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
	School: School of Social Sciences
	Course Outline: School of Social Sciences
	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
	Excluded: CRIM2026
	CSS Contribution Charge:Band 1 (more info)
	Tuition Fee:See Tuition Fee Schedule
	Further Information: See Class Timetable

Description

Subject Area: Criminology

All anglo-western criminal justice systems have significant over-representation, at all levels, of people with mental health disorders and cognitive disability. This course explores the life-pathways persons with these disabilities take into the criminal justice system and into prison in particular; examines the institutional contributions to these persons' offending and enmeshment in the system; analyses policy and legislation governing this area; applies critical criminology and critical disability theoretical perspectives to the area; and debates alternative understandings and frameworks.

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