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Credit points: 16.7 3rd and 4th years
Coordinator: Ms D Greig.
Prerequisite: 3rd year: Any two second year level Criminology subjects; 4th year: Admission to Criminology Honours.
Contact: A 1-hour lecture, a 2-hour seminar and no more than 26 hours of visits and interviews.
Timetable: First semester
Objectives:
At the conclusion of this subject students should:
- have an understanding of the various ways in which the criminal justice and mental health systems interact;
- have some awareness of the paradigmatic differences between the law and psychiatry;
- understand the debates within psychiatry regarding its special relation to the state;
- appreciate the reality of mental illness and intellectual disability and their personal and societal consequences;
- be familiar with the historical and social context in which madness is contextualised;
- understand the legislative and political responses to the mentally disordered offender.
Content:
Critical appraisal of the medical and legal professions in their social control function.
Assessment:
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.
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Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Arts (Volume 3 page 42)
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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