Course

Explaining Crime - CRIM3001

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: CRIM2020. Or 48 units of credit overall, including CRIM1010 or CRIM1011 and enrolment in a Criminology & Criminal Justice/Law program or Criminology stream in an Arts/Law program

Excluded: CRIM5001

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

This course builds upon your understanding of the major theoretical approaches to crime and criminal justice. Criminological theory will be critically examined for its utility in developing policy responses and understanding the historical and contemporary development of our understandings of crime, criminality and the criminal justice system. Similar to the other social sciences, criminology is a reflexive discipline whereby part of the criminological enterprise is to critically examine criminology itself. We will look at theories that help us to understand what generates crime, how to prevent crime and how crime is best dealt with.

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