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Credit points: 16.7 3rd and 4th years
Coordinator: Dr S James.
Prerequisite: 3rd year: Any two second year criminology subjects; 4th year: Admission to Criminology Honours.
Contact: One 1-hour lecture and one 2-hour seminar per week.
Timetable: First semester
Objectives:
Students who complete this subject should be able to:
- understand the broad historical and contemporary patterns of legal and illegal drug use;
- understand the nature of the links between drug use and crime;
- understand the broad historical, social and political factors which have influenced drug control efforts;
- understand and debate the contemporary discourses on social and justice policy with regard to drug use and control.
Content:
Drugs and criminology; drug consumption in history; international regulation and control; Australian regulation and control; alcohol and crime; opiates, cannabis and crime; amphetamines, designer drugs and crime; NCADA and national policy; the criminal justice response to drugs; treatment and rehabilitation; the war on drugs.
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 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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