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191-428 Crime and Culture | |
Note | Available as 191-328 at 3rd-year level. |
Credit Points | 16.7 3rd and 4th year |
Coordinator | Dr A Young |
Prerequisites | 3rd year: Any two second year level Criminology subjects; 4th year: Admission to Criminology Honours. |
Semester | 1 |
Contact | A 2-hour lecture and a 1-hour seminar per week |
Subject Description | Examination of relationship between crime and culture, including consideration of various public discourses (newspapers, film, fiction, television, photography, government policy). Understanding the diverse meanings given to crime and culture, especially in cultural representations of crime and in the cultural dimensions of criminal justice. 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 5000 words written work at 3rd year level and 6000 words at 4th year level. An examination may be substituted for part of the written work. |
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