ATS2471 - Comparative criminal justice: An international perspective - 2017

6 points, SCA Band 1, 0.125 EFTSL

Undergraduate - Unit

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Faculty

Arts

Coordinator(s)

Amanda McLeod

Unit guides

Offered

Gippsland

  • First semester 2017 (Day)
  • First semester 2017 (Online)

Notes

Students need to contact the Arts Student ServicesArts Student Services (http://future.arts.monash.edu/contact-arts/) desk to enrol in the unit.

Synopsis

Students study the aims and methods of comparative criminal justice. Policing structures, functions and practices are examined. The unit explores how the courts of selected countries conduct criminal trials. The fairness and effectiveness of sentencing and punishment will be analysed. Penal policy and prisoner rights will be considered as well as recent innovative non-custodial sanctions. The dismantling of geographical boundaries has hastened the spread of transnational organised crime networks. This unit offers a comparative perspective of the nature of transnational crime and the national and international efforts to identify and control such activities.

Outcomes

Upon successful completion of the unit, students are expected to have developed:

  1. a deeper understanding and appreciation of contemporary international criminal justice issues
  2. an understanding of the role, functions and essential features of criminal justice systems in a range of countries
  3. the ability to analyse and evaluate the fairness of criminal justice systems within particular political systems
  4. the skill to conduct comparative analysis of criminal justice systems and to identify implications for the future of an international criminal justice system
  5. an appreciation of the issues that distinguish criminal justice systems in selected countries
  6. an understanding of the evolving globalisation of crime and the cooperative efforts needed to combat it.

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.

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Chief examiner(s)

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

Prerequisites

24 points at level 1 in Arts.

Prohibitions

ATS3471, CRJ2001, CRJ3001