LAWS6192 - Young People, Crime and the Law

Objectives

• Acquire a broad overview of the functioning of the juvenile justice system and its relationship to juvenile offending.
• Analyse the historical development of a separate system of juvenile justice and the system of ideas about juvenile delinquency as distinct entities separable from broader notions of criminality and criminal justice.
• Examine the contemporary nature of juvenile crime and specific issues in relation to policing, community-based corrections and detention centres.

Content

Social relations which mediate between the juvenile justice system and young people; gender, race and class; the broader political determinants surrounding the operation of the juvenile justice system and moral panics in relation to juvenile offending; the link between theory and juvenile justice policy; the multi-disciplinary nature of criminological explanation.

This unit of study replaced Juvenille Justice – LAWS6069

Session

Semester 2 2010
Thursday Evenings, 6-8pm

The timetable is subject to frequent changes. Please refer to the latest version of the Postgraduate Timetable.

Assessment

• 1 x 4,500 Word Essay
• 1 x Take-Home Exam
• 1 x Class Presentation

Assumed Knowledge

Completion of LAWS 6252 - Legal Reasoning & the Common Law System or law degree from a common law jurisdiction.

Prohibition

Graduate Diploma students, LAWS 6857 or LAWS 3014 - Introduction to Chinese Law and candidates who have completed a law degree in the People’s Republic of China.

Courses this unit is available in

Master of Laws | Graduate Diploma in Law | Master of Global Law | Master of Criminology | Graduate Diploma in Criminology