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LAWS5155: Policing, Crime and Society
2025 unit information
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.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Sydney Law School
| Study level | Postgraduate |
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| Academic unit | Law |
| Credit points | 6 |
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Prerequisites:
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None |
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Corequisites:
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None |
| Prohibitions:
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LAWS3048 or LAWS3455 |
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None |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. examine and understand the practices and institutions of policing within a social and political context
- LO2. examine and understand debates about the nature of policing
- LO3. examine and understand the particular character of policing in Australia
- LO4. examine and understand the inter-relationships between policing and other mechanisms of regulation
- LO5. examine and understand the impact of criminal law and its enforcement on different social groups, with particular attention on race, gender, and class, and to their intersection
- LO6. examine and understand prospects for the reform of policing.
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Semester 1 2025
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Normal day | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
Outline unavailable
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