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Credit points: 16.7 2nd and 3rd years
Coordinator: To be advised.
Prerequisite: Normally 25 points of first-year Criminology.
Contact: Two 1-hour lectures and a 1-hour tutorial per week.
Timetable: Second semester
Objectives:
Students completing this subject should:
- understand the nature and purposes of legal punishment as administered by the state, and how this has developed over the years;
- be familiar with and understand the range of correctional issues presented in lectures;
- be able to discuss the given range of correctional issues in class, present the results of library research, and contribute to class discussions in an informed and confident way;
- be able to conduct library research into a chosen correctional issue and produce a logically structured, coherent and concise evaluative report setting out prior work on the area or areas in question and suggesting ways in which problems could be addressed in the future;
- be able to write the essay referred to above in accordance with stated publication style guidelines.
Content:
Theory and practice of the correctional system.
Assessment:
Up to 5,000 words of written work. An examination of up to two hours may be substituted for part of the written work.
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Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Arts (Volume 3 page 41)
Status: Official 1996 Date created: Oct 9 1995 Last modified: Oct 9 1995 Authorised by: Academic Registrar Email enquiries: Course_Information@registrar.unimelb.edu.au
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