The unit of study aims to encourage students to develop skills and knowledge about the police and policing, with particular reference to the shifting nature of policing. The unit includes critical analysis of theoretical and policy issues within contemporary criminal justice, but also examines policing (in its widest sense) including the pluralisation of policing. Students will examine: crime and crime control within a social and political context; policing and other institutions and processes of criminal justice in the light of contemporary research and policy debates; the major theoretical frameworks within which crime, policing and criminal justice policy are constructed and analysed; challenges for policing arising from changes in spatial arrangements, and from transnational developments in crime and crime control.
Classes
2x2-hr seminars/week for 10 weeks
Assessment
2,500-3,000wd research essay (60%) and 1,200wd presentation paper (30%) and class presentation (10%)
LAWS3048 or LAWS3455
Semester 1
05 Mar 2018