Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Arts (Volume 3 page 43)
Criminology subject : Next:191-323 | Prev:191-321 | Search | Help
191-322/422 "Women, Gender and Crime" appears differently in several places - choose the one you want:
1. Criminology, Faculty of Arts (v3, p43) : Next:191-323 | Prev:191-321
Credit points: 16.7 3rd and 4th years
Coordinator: Dr A Young.
Prerequisite: 3rd year: Any two second year level Criminology subjects; 4th year: Admission to Criminology Honours.
Contact: A 1-hour class and a 2-hour seminar.
Timetable: First semester
Objectives:
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.
Content:
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.
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.
1. Criminology, Faculty of Arts (v3, p43) : Next:191-323 | Prev:191-321
2. Sociology, Faculty of Arts (v3, p168) : Next:121-204 | Prev:191-317
Credit points: 16.7 3rd year
Coordinator: Dr A Young.
Prerequisite: Normally, 25 points of first-year Sociology.
Contact: A 1-hour class and a 90-minute seminar.
Timetable: First semester
Objectives:
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.
Content:
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.
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.
* Note that CONTACT, POINTS, PREREQUISITES differs from the maintainer's version above. A log of variations is available.
2. Sociology, Faculty of Arts (v3, p168) : Next:121-204 | Prev:191-317
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
Maintained by: Dept. of Criminology, Faculty of Arts.
Copyright © University of Melbourne 1995,1996.