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CRIM1002: Exploring Criminal Justice
2025 unit information
This unit examines key features and processes of criminal justice institutions, crime justice policy and practice, and addresses contemporary debates about crime in relation to substantive areas, such as gender, race, ethnicity, and youth offending.
Unit details and rules
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| Study level | Undergraduate |
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| Academic unit | Sociology and Criminology |
| Credit points | 6 |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. Define the concepts central to crime and criminal justice.
- LO2. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding about the operation of the criminal justice institutions and contemporary criminal justice policy and practice via formal assessment tasks and peer group discussion.
- LO3. Evaluate the ways criminal justice processes and crime policy impact social issues in substantive areas, such as those relating to gender, race, ethnicity, and youth offending.
- LO4. Communicate knowledge and understanding of criminal justice institutions and crime policy in contemporary and historical perspective using oral, written and digital formats via assessment tasks, seminar discussions and tutorial participation.
- LO5. Demonstrate an understanding of the content of the unit outline, demonstrating an ability to extract key information such as locating resources, learning objectives, assessment criteria, deadlines and expectations, enabling them to effectively plan and organise their studies empowering them to engage proactively in their university studies
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Semester 1 2025
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Normal day | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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