Course overview
This course examines how crime problems are created, constructed, and represented and considers how structural inequalities, such as race, gender, age and socio-economic disadvantage impact crime and criminal justice. Students will study specific crime types and critically analyse how structural inequalities can influence the nature and representation of these crimes as well as responses to them.
- Critically understanding ‘crime problems’
- Crime and structural inequalities
- Crime ‘problems’ and their responses
Course learning outcomes
- Explain the construction of crime using frameworks of media representation and the concept of moral panics
- Analyse how structural inequalities such as race, gender, age, and socio-economic disadvantage influence crime in Australia
- Identify the nature and extent of pressing crime problems in Australia
- Evaluate responses to crime problems using a critical perspective and relevant, contemporary criminological research
Availability
Class details
Adelaide City Campus East
Group 1
Class number 29103
Section TU11
Size 30
Available 30
Class number 29104
Section TU10
Size 30
Available 30
Class number 29105
Section TU09
Size 30
Available 30
Class number 29106
Section TU08
Size 30
Available 30
Class number 29107
Section TU07
Size 30
Available 30
Class number 29108
Section TU06
Size 30
Available 30
Class number 29110
Section TU04
Size 30
Available 30
Class number 29111
Section TU03
Size 30
Available 30
Class number 29112
Section TU02
Size 30
Available 30
Class number 29113
Section TU01
Size 30
Available 30
Class number 28733
Section LE01
Size 350
Available 350
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