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.
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
Degree list
The following degrees include this course