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CRIM2604: Race, Law and Justice
2025 unit information
This unit will examine histories and continuing legacies of colonialism and racialisation and their interaction with legal systems and criminalisation. Topics covered could include dispossession and theft of sovereignty in settler colonial nations, structural racism and its relation to law, racialised policing and profiling, mass incarceration policies and movements by Indigenous peoples and people of colour to achieve social and legal justice.
Unit details and rules
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Arts and Social Sciences
| Study level | Undergraduate |
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| Academic unit | Sociology and Criminology |
| Credit points | 6 |
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Prerequisites:
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12 credit points at 1000 level in Sociology or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Socio-Legal Studies or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Criminology |
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Corequisites:
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None |
| Prohibitions:
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SLSS2604 |
| Assumed knowledge:
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None |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. Recognise the historical, legal, political, social, economic and cultural considerations relevant to understanding racism and its effects
- LO2. Form an appreciation of key theories that can be applied to understand the complex relationship between race, law and social and legal justice
- LO3. Form an appreciation of the issues facing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in the struggle for social and legal justice.
- LO4. Develop a critical stance on issues pertaining to race and its relationship to law and justice
- LO5. Explore and evaluate social and legal justice approaches that respond to colonialism, settler colonialism and racism
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Semester 2 2025
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Normal day | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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