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
Availability
Class details
Adelaide City Campus East
Class number 29843
Section LE01
Size 270
Available 152
Class number 25884
Section TU01
Size 30
Available 20
Class number 25885
Section TU02
Size 30
Available 20
Class number 25886
Section TU03
Size 30
Available 19
Class number 29359
Section TU04
Size 30
Available 2
Class number 29360
Section TU05
Size 30
Available 9
Class number 29361
Section TU06
Size 30
Available 16
Class number 29362
Section TU07
Size 30
Available 21
Class number 29363
Section TU08
Size 30
Available 29
Class number 29364
Section TU09
Size 30
Available 16
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