Undergraduate - UnitATS2466 - Gender, sex and crime

This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2015 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

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6 points, SCA Band 1, 0.125 EFTSL

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Level	Undergraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Arts
Organisational Unit	Criminology
Offered	Caulfield Second semester 2015 (Day) Clayton Second semester 2015 (Day)
Coordinator(s)	Dr Lennon Chang

Synopsis

This unit examines the intersection of sex and crime and the role gender stereotypes play in the operations of the criminal justice system. The subject uses key critical criminological and feminist theories to explore how social norms of femininity and masculinity produce particular sexed understandings of crime and criminality. It provides practical interpretative skills to enable students to apply these theoretical insights to the criminal justice system, to popular and media representations of crime and to the development of public policy. Topics include: sex and the nature of crime; gender and policing; femininity, masculinity and violence; family violence; constructions of rape.

Outcomes

By the successful completion of Sex and Crime, students will have acquired the following skills:

A grounded working knowledge of the major theoretical and methodological approaches that constitute the field of feminist approaches to crime and justice;
An informed theoretical critique of how gender is constituted in society, the media and the criminal justice system;
Library based research skills;
The ability to think critical and analytically, and to be able to articulate those thought processes in a high standard of written and oral expression.
The production of thoroughly researched, well documented and presented formal essays.
The ability to work independently as scholars.

Assessment

Within semester assessment: 60%
Exam: 40%

Workload requirements

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. A unit requires on average three/four hours of scheduled activities per week. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.

Chief examiner(s)

Dr Lennon Chang

This unit applies to the following area(s) of study

Criminology

Prerequisites

Twelve credit points of first-year Arts units. It is highly recommended that students only take this unit after they have completed two gateway units in Criminology.

Prohibitions

ATS3466, AZA2466, AZA3466