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LAWS6327: Crime and Media
2025 unit information
This unit critically explores the complex cultural social and popular intersections between media and crime in the broadest sense Topics covered include news reporting of crime media constructions of offenders and offences moral panic and labelling media and policing reality crime shows surveillance and social control crime television and film crime and social media. Refer to the Sydney Law School timetable - https://canvas.sydney.edu.au/courses/4533/pages/postgraduate-lecture-timetable
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Sydney Law School
| Study level | Postgraduate |
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| Academic unit | Law |
| Credit points | 6 |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. demonstrate critical knowledge of the concepts and debates around crime and media
- LO2. demonstrate analytical skills required for media analysis of crime and criminal justice issues
- LO3. demonstrate an understanding of the inter-relationships between crime, media, culture, and politics
- LO4. utilise the tools to critically evaluate and analyse media constructions of crime
- LO5. demonstrate understanding of the contexts of crime reporting or representation - political, cultural, social, and institutional
- LO6. demonstrate an understanding of the impact of representations of crime.
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Semester 1b 2025
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Block mode | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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