LAWS6895 - Gender, Race & Crime

Objectives

• Acquire a theoretical understanding of the concepts of gender, race/ethnicity and their intersection with other social categories and their relationship to the construction of crime, crime control and justice.
• Develop a critical analysis of the criminal justice system and related forms of regulation by focusing on race/ethnicity, gender and their intersection.
• Gain a critical understanding of the empirical data on the relationship between race/ethnicity, gender and the criminal justice system.

Content

Definitions and constructions of knowledge about race, ethnicity and gender and their effects; whiteness and white privilege; the impact of colonial relations on indigenous people and their relationship with the criminal law; criminalisation, victimisation; contemporary criminal justice; alternative forms of justice; violence against Aboriginal women and children; media constructions of race, ethnicity and crime; and migration and crime (migration for marriage, refugees, trafficking).

Session

Semester 2 2010
Monday Evenings, 6-8pm

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

This unit replaced LAWS6051 - Gender, Race and Legal Relations

Assessment

• 1 x 4,500 Word Essay (50%)
• 1 x Take-Home Exam (40%)
• 1 x Class Presentation (10%)

Prohibition

LAWS6051 - Gender, Race and Legal Relations

Courses this unit is available in

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