| Effective Term: | 2025/04 |
| Institute / School : | Institute of Education, Arts & Community |
| Unit Title: | Crime in Contemporary Contexts |
| Unit ID: | CRJUS1286 |
| Credit Points: | 15.00 |
| Prerequisite(s): | Nil |
| Co-requisite(s): | Nil |
| Exclusion(s): | Nil |
| ASCED: | 099903 |
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| Brief description of the Unit |
This unit provides students with the opportunity to engage with key issues and debates about the social construction of crime, types of crime and the inequities of the various responses to crime. Students will also learn to develop critical analytical skills by considering how crimes are reported in the media; the factors that inform how crime is presented and the impact of crime reporting on our understanding of crime prevalence. Students will engage with both academic literature and informed commentary and analysis about where crimes occur, who perpetrates crime and the impact of crime on society. Students will develop knowledge about the nexus of the resources required to address crime in contemporary Australian society and the consequential limitations of bringing some perpetrators to justice. |
| Grade Scheme: | Graded (HD, D, C, P, MF, F, XF) |
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| Placement Component: No |
| Supplementary Assessment:Yes |
| Where supplementary assessment is available a student must have failed overall in the Unit but gained a final mark of 45 per cent or above, has completed all major assessment tasks (including all sub-components where a task has multiple parts) as specified in the Unit Description and is not eligible for any other form of supplementary assessment |
| Course Level: |
| Level of Unit in Course | AQF Level(s) of Course | | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | | Introductory | | |  | | | | | Intermediate | | | | | | | | Advanced | | | | | | |
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