Current Issues in Criminal Justice - JURD7376
Faculty: Faculty of Law
School: Faculty of Law
Course Outline: See below
Campus: Sydney
Career: Postgraduate
Units of Credit: 6
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 2
Enrolment Requirements:
Pre-requisite: 36 UOC of JURD courses for students enrolled prior to 2013. For students enrolled after 2013, pre-requisite: 72 UOC of JURD courses.
Excluded: LAWS8076
CSS Contribution Charge: 3 (more info)
Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule
Further Information: See Class Timetable
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Description
This course examines shifting notions of crime and responsibility for crime within criminal justice. It considers multiple meanings of criminal justice, such as in governing law and order, as dispute resolution, and in managing risk. It encourages a critical appreciation of criminal justice system responses to crime and engages with the need for criminal justice policy to respond to economic, social, political and cultural issues. The course will examine selected recent developments and ongoing debates in criminal justice.
The course is an elective within the Master of Criminal Justice and Criminology degree and provides a good grounding for further studies, and for practice, in criminal law, criminology and criminal justice.
Main Topics
The course is an elective within the Master of Criminal Justice and Criminology degree and provides a good grounding for further studies, and for practice, in criminal law, criminology and criminal justice.
Main Topics
- Bail and other pre-trial developments;
- Compulsory treatment;
- Specialised courts;
- Restorative justice and other forms of alternative justice;
- Private and hybrid forms of security;
- The move towards ‘pre-crime’.
More information can be found on the Course Outline Website.
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