ACR702 - Criminological Policy and Policymaking
| Year: | 2025 unit information |
|---|---|
| Enrolment modes: | Trimester 2: Online |
| Credit point(s): | 1 |
| EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
| Prerequisite: | Nil |
| Corequisite: | Nil |
| Incompatible with: | Nil |
| Study commitment | Students will on average spend 150-hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit. This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site. |
| Scheduled learning activities - online | 5 x 2-hour online seminar per trimester in weeks TBA. |
Content
This unit explores the processes and practices that inform government decision-making. How do Governments reach decisions about appropriate crime policy? Are those decisions evidence-based? What role does criminological research play in shaping contemporary crime and criminal justice policy? This unit explores how governmental crime and criminal justice policies are developed and implemented. In doing so, it examines how criminologists have become increasingly interested in the processes of policy-making and global circulation of crime control policies. This unit examines different approaches used to explain the shape of policy-making in both global and national contexts, including how structural/economic, cultural, and political conditions influence the development, circulation, convergence, and adoption of crime and criminal justice policies. It will cover a broad range of state and non-state actors that are implicated in the production of, and contestations over, crime and criminal justice policies. A number of discrete empirical areas regarding policy processes in the criminal justice system will be explored, and may include penal policy, policing, privatisation, the environment, drug policy, as well as human and digital rights.
Unit Fee Information
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