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ATS3464

Faculty of Arts

18 September 2017 22 December 2024

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This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2016 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.

Monash University

12 points, SCA Band 1, 0.250 EFTSL

Undergraduate - Unit

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Faculty

Arts

Organisational Unit

Criminology

Coordinator(s)

Dr James Roffee

Offered

Overseas

  • Summer semester A 2016 (Flexible)

Notes

Synopsis

This intensively delivered unit is part of our Criminology Overseas program. The unit introduces students to the comparative study of criminology which involves the study of crime and social control across different cultural contexts. While it may appear easy to make simple comparisons, there is a need for a far greater understanding of what, how and why a comparison is being made. This unit studies the production of criminological knowledge across cultures as well as its meaning and how we understand it. This unit it gives students the opportunity to gain on-location access to experienced professional practitioners - Judges, Police/FBI, Prison staff - in the field of criminology in the United States of America. Examples of topics for comparative understanding include: prisons and punishment, policing, social inequality and crime, immigration and race/ethnicity, organised crime/gangs, and juvenile justice.

Outcomes

The unit seeks to enhance the ability of students to undertake independent research under the guidance of supervision. Upon completion of the unit students will be able to demonstrate the ability to:

  1. appreciate the need for a comparative understanding of criminology in historical and current social perspectives;
  2. find and generate information and data that can be used to facilitate a comparative understanding of criminology, and its relationship to other social and political systems;
  3. critically evaluate contrasting perspectives and practitioner approaches to criminology in different jurisdictions;
  4. consider understandings of criminology in both domestic and international settings and the impact of these;
  5. synthesize, analyse and apply critical understandings of criminological comparisons to practices of national and international efforts to achieve justice;
  6. communicate the key elements necessary for comparative work to be undertaken and critically evaluate the advantages and limitations of understanding crime and social control across cultures.

Assessment

Within semester assessment: 100%

Workload requirements

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 288 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.

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Chief examiner(s)

Dr James Roffee

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

Criminology

Prerequisites

Two gateway units in Criminology.

Prohibitions

ATS2464