WOMEN, GENDER AND CRIME16.7 3rd and 4th years
Dr A Young.
3rd year: Any two second year level Criminology subjects; 4th year: Admission to Criminology Honours.
First semester
A 1-hour class and a 2-hour seminar.
Students completing this subject should:
have developed a knowledge of the nature and extent of female crime and victimisation;
have an awareness of contemporary debates in feminist criminology;
have a capacity to think and write critically about the centrality of gender to analyses of criminal justice policies and programs.
An analysis of the criminalisation and victimisation of women. Topics will include: the nature and extent of female crime and victimisation; theories of female crime; social definition of, and responses to, such behaviours; the construction of gender in legal and criminal justice discourse; and masculinity and violence.
Up to 5,000 words of written work at 3rd year level and 6,000 words at 4th year level. An examination may be substituted for part of the written work.
WOMEN, GENDER AND CRIME16.7 3rd year
Dr A Young.
Normally, 25 points of first-year Sociology.
First semester
A 1-hour class and a 90-minute seminar.
Students completing this subject should:
have developed a knowledge of the nature and extent of female crime and victimisation;
have an awareness of contemporary debates in feminist criminology;
have a capacity to think and write critically about the centrality of gender to analyses of criminal justice policies and programs.
An analysis of the criminalisation and victimisation of women. Topics will include: the nature and extent of female crime and victimisation; theories of female crime; social definition of, and responses to, such behaviours; the construction of gender in legal and criminal justice discourse; and masculinity and violence.
Up to 5,000 words of written work at 3rd year level and 6,000 words at 4th year level. An examination may be substituted for part of the written work.