UNSW Handbook Course - Crime, Politics and the Media

Crime, Politics and the Media - CRIM2034


	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: CRIM2027
	CSS Contribution Charge:Band 1 (more info)
	Tuition Fee:See Tuition Fee Schedule
	Further Information: See Class Timetable

Description

Subject Area: Criminology

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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