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: Sydney
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: 1 (more info)
Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule
Further Information: See Class Timetable
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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.