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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: One 1-hour lecture and a 2-hour seminar per week.
Timetable: First semester
Objectives:
Students who complete this subject should be able to:
- understand the diverse meaning given to crime and culture;
- have experience in the analysis of fiction as an example of how crime can be seen in culture;
- have an understanding of how cultural identities are constructed around racial and sexual identities with reference to criminality;
- be aware of ways that guilt is typically represented in the allocation of status as either victim or criminal.
Content:
Examination of relationship between crime and culture, including consideration of various public discourses (newspapers, film, fiction, television, photography, government policy). Review of crime as a category of fiction, crime as it is associated with construction of social identities and crime as represented in attribution of guilt. Issues of gender and ethnicity are addressed in the syllabus.
Assessment:
Up to 5,000 words 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 44)
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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