Course

Policing - LAWS3789

Faculty: Faculty of Law

School: Faculty of Law

Course Outline: http://www.law.unsw.edu.au/

Campus: Sydney

Career: Undergraduate

Units of Credit: 6

EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)

Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3

Enrolment Requirements:

Prerequisite: Completion of 78 UOC in LAWS courses.

Equivalent: JURD7506, LAWS8106

Excluded: CRIM2014, JURD7789, LAWX1789

CSS Contribution Charge: 3 (more info)

Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule

Further Information: See Class Timetable

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Description

Focuses on policing as a set of social and legal practices and institutions, including beyond the public police. The approach is comparative and inter-disciplinary, drawing on a wide range of historical, socio-legal and criminological research. Policing is placed in its social and historical contexts by assessing conflicting interpretations of its history and of police public relations and the particular character policing in Australia. Topics include: police culture, the policing of social divisions, police corruption and deviance, the policing of public order, the policing of young people, drug policing, fictional representations of policing, developments in community, private, hybrid and international policing, and the limits and possibilities of police reform in the wake of the Royal Commission into the NSW Police Service.

More information can be found on the Course Outline Website.
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