School Of Social SciencesCrime and SocietyWestern Sydney University Unit Code: 101358.1
Discipline: CRIMINOLOGY
Student Contribution Band: 1
Level: 2
Credit Points: 10
Assumed Knowledge
Foundation criminology units
Equivalent Units
C1047 - Crime and Society
Unit Enrolment Restrictions
Successful completion of 40 credit points.
About this Unit
This unit examines key contemporary crime and criminal justice issues in their global and domestic context.
Utilising a range of theoretical approaches, students will increase their understanding of how politics, economics, media, popular culture, personal experience, policy and law contribute to the impact of crime on our daily lives.
Students will have the opportunity to explore the ways in which a range of contemporary issues such as terrorism and anti-social behaviour emerge as key concerns for governments, or remain in the background. Students will explore how these concerns are dealt with by governments through criminalisation or civil/administrative/regulatory means. Students will examine the tensions that this may present in relation to the protection of human rights and civil liberties, and intersections with other public policy areas.
Topics in the course may vary from year to year as new issues emerge worldwide and domestically.