ACR703 - Critical Criminological Perspectives
| Year: | 2025 unit information |
|---|---|
| Enrolment modes: | Trimester 1: 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 critically interrogates the diverse theories, perspectives and narratives that have evolved over time to understand, explain and prevent crime and criminality. Whilst providing students with an advanced engagement of criminological approaches to analysing and understanding crime, the emphasis will be on contemporary and emerging critical narratives. It will examine, for example, critical perspectives such as Indigenous, Feminist, Marxist, Green, Human Rights, Abolitionist, Southern, and Postmodern criminologies that engage with issues of power, harm and justice in innovative and novel ways often overlooked by mainstream criminological discourses. In doing so, this unit gives voice to those marginalised and dislocated peoples. Therefore, the lived experiences of inmates, indigenous communities, ethnic minorities, the environmentally dislocated, and the discriminated against, provide the basis upon which this unit critically interrogates contemporary approaches, policies and practices for understanding and responding to crime and criminal behaviour.
Unit Fee Information
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