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191-202 Crime and Public Policy | |
Note | Available as 191-302 at 3rd-year level. A mark of 5% will be awarded for tutorial attendance. To receive this mark, students must attend at least 8 tutorials. |
Credit Points | 16.7 2nd and 3rd year |
Coordinator | Dr A Sutton |
Pre/corequisites | Normally 25 points of first-year Criminology. |
Semester | 1 |
Contact | Two 1-hour lectures and a 1-hour tutorial per week |
Subject Description | Review attempts in Australia to apply criminological theory in policy contexts. Reform issues covered include public drunkenness, family violence, workplace harm and other white collar crime, illicit drunkenness and the sex industry. Emphasis is on making students aware of the relevance of broader social theory (e.g., feminism, Marx, Weber, Durkheim, Foucault and Habermas) for understanding contemporary controversies and debates. |
Assessment | Up to 5000 words of written work. An examination of up to two hours may be substituted for part of the written work. |
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