Undergraduate - UnitATS3466 - Sex, gender 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	Not offered in 2015
Coordinator(s)	Dr Danielle Tyson; Dr James Roffee

Notes

Previously coded CRI3140

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
An interdisciplinary approach to textual analysis
Library based research skills and a working knowledge of the major data-bases used in cultural studies
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
A focus upon the production of scholarly research as the end point of a process of reading, discussion, drafting and debate
The production of thoroughly researched, well documented and presented formal essays
The ability to work independently as scholars.