UNSW Handbook Course - Critical Criminology and Human Rights

Critical Criminology and Human Rights - CRIM3006


	Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
	School: School of Social Sciences and International Studies
	Course Outline: Contact School
	Campus: Kensington Campus
	Career: Undergraduate
	Units of Credit: 6
	EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
	Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
	Enrolment Requirements:
	Prerequisite: Enrolment in program 3422 and 72 uoc including CRIM2020, or enrolment in a major or minor in Criminology and 72 uoc overall including CRIM2020, or enrolment in program 4763 and 72 uoc overall
	CSS Contribution Charge:Band 1 (more info)
	Tuition Fee:See Tuition Fee Schedule
	Further Information: See Class Timetable

Description

This is a shelf course. A shelf course comprises a number of modules related to this broad area of study. Each module is a separate semester of study in this area and is offered in rotation. You can study TWO modules but you cannot study the same module twice.

Subject Area: Criminology

Course Aims

The primary intention of this course is to provide students with a higher level introduction to the key theoretical and public policy issues which inform Critical Criminology. A candidate who has successfully completed this course should be able to:

Understand the concept of critical criminology
Understand the key theoretical and policy issues that underpin critical criminology
Understand the relationship between criminal justice theory and policy
Demonstrate a more sophisticated understanding of criminological research

The main topics to be covered in this course include:

An introduction to Critical Criminology and issues of definition
Research methodologies and critical approaches
Social and political theory and criminology
Feminist criminologies
Edgework and the pleasure of crime
Criminalisation, racialisation and postcolonial theory
Conceptualising the role of the state in critical criminology
Criminologies of resistance
Globalisation and criminology
The role of critical criminologists as public intellectuals

Module: "Understanding Critical Criminology"
This elective provides an introduction to critical criminology. It is an introduction to the themes, ideas and issues which engage and motivate critical intellectuals in criminology. Critical criminology seeks to locate and understand the reasons for crime and criminal justice responses within wider structural and institutional contexts. The elective is designed to provide students with a grounding in the key concerns which inform critical criminological scholarship. This includes addressing theoretical problems around cultural production, class, postcolonialism and feminism. The course also explores specific matters of concern to critical criminology including penality and the growth of imprisonment, gender-based violence and masculinity, and various processes of criminalisation.

Module: "State Crime and Human Rights" (Semester 2, 2011)
This module draws on some of the material previously taught in the criminology elective Crime, Power and Human Rights (CRIM 2018). It provides an overview of the criminological debates about state crime as a means of discussing some of the wider concerns of critical criminology. The course introduces students to some of the issues associated with the establishment of an international system of criminal justice. It also introduces students to some of the contemporary research being undertaken by criminologists into organised human rights abuses committed by states. Topics covered include: war crimes; modern and colonial genocide; immigration detention; torture and rendition; natural distaster as state crime; the International Criminal Court and resistance to state crime.