Current Issues in Criminology (12101.1)

In this unit, students will have the opportunity to extend their knowledge and engage with cutting edge debates about a particular crime problem or socio-legal response to crime and social harm. The content will vary in different years, reflecting emerging issues in the criminal justice sector and capitalizing on particular areas of teaching expertise. For illustrative purposes only, key topics could include cybercrime, new technologies in policing and criminal justice, preventing gendered crime, justice reinvestment, alternative justice mechanisms, hate crime, youth justice reform, miscarriages of justice, race and policing, prison abolitionism, border criminology, state-corporate crime, decolonising criminal justice, criminology and human rights, or transnational crime.

Learning outcomes

Upon successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:
1. Articulate the real-world significance, at the local and global level, of a particular crime type or justice mechanism;
2. Critique key socio-political and/or scholarly debates about the crime type or justice mechanism in question;
3. Apply research evidence and theoretical concepts to explain and critique criminological understandings of the crime type or justice mechanism in question; and
4. Identify emerging trends and reflect on possible future developments in the development of criminological knowledge in relation to the crime type or justice mechanism in question.

Graduate attributes

1. UC graduates are professional - communicate effectively
1. UC graduates are professional - display initiative and drive, and use their organisation skills to plan and manage their workload
1. UC graduates are professional - employ up-to-date and relevant knowledge and skills
1. UC graduates are professional - take pride in their professional and personal integrity
1. UC graduates are professional - use creativity, critical thinking, analysis and research skills to solve theoretical and real-world problems
1. UC graduates are professional - work collaboratively as part of a team, negotiate, and resolve conflict
2. UC graduates are global citizens - think globally about issues in their profession
3. UC graduates are lifelong learners - adapt to complexity, ambiguity and change by being flexible and keen to engage with new ideas

Prerequisites

12105 Crime, Criminology and Criminal Justice

Corequisites

None.

Incompatible units

None.

Equivalent units

None.

Assumed knowledge

None.