Undergraduate - UnitAZA3467 - Child justice: Human rights, law reform and socio-criminology of deviance

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6 points, SCA Band 1, 0.125 EFTSL

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Level	Undergraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Arts
Organisational Unit	South Africa School of Social Sciences
Offered	South Africa Second semester 2015 (Day)
Coordinator(s)	Ms Tara Harris

Synopsis

This unit entails a critical introduction to the study-field of child justice in South Africa with an exposition and analysis of the concepts legal relativism and child offenders as victims. Child justice is studied within particular socio-economic, cultural and political contexts scrutinise within a human rights framework, sentencing practices, state service delivery and statutory provisions rendering in practice the opposite than the envisaged constitutional protection. This course concludes with measures for purposes of redress, focusing on minimum standards for child justice and reform, child justice indicators and structural interdicts to ensure state delivery.

Outcomes

Understand the study field of child justice
Apply knowledge of child justice to particular contexts
Demonstrate the ability to critically assess child justice risks
Critically appraise the impact of criminal justice victimisation on the rights of the child and that of a just society
Demonstrate knowledge of child justice reform
Use appropriate science and technology effectively and responsibly when dealing with child justice without harming society, the environment or individuals
Work and communicate with others as a member of a multi-disciplinary team to deal effectively with child justice

Assessment

Within semester assessment: 65%
Exam: 35%

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)

Ms Tara Harris

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

Criminology and criminal justice

Prerequisites

Twelve credit points of second-year Arts units.

Prohibitions

AZA2467, ATS2467, ATS3467