The course focuses on the construction of knowledge about gender, race and ethnicity with reference to criminal justice; the legacy of colonial relations in Australia for Indigenous peoples and on criminal justice practices; and, how ideas about ethnicity and migration relate to gendered and racialised understandings of crime and within criminal justice. The approach is comparative and inter-disciplinary, drawing on a wide range of historical, socio-legal and criminological research. Topics include: media representations of crime; gendered and raced patterns in violence; global mobility, migration, trafficking; policing; punishment; and developments in restorative justice and Indigenous 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.

LLM Specialisations

Criminal Justice and Criminology.

Main Topics

More information can be found on the Course Outline Website.