Justice Responses to Difference

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Effective Term: 2025/05
Institute / School :Institute of Education, Arts & Community
Unit Title: Justice Responses to Difference
Unit ID: CRJUS3303
Credit Points: 15.00
Prerequisite(s): (CRJUS1283 and CRJUS1284) OR (CRJUS1285 and CRJUS1287) OR (ATSGC1283 and ATSGC1284) (At least 60 credit points from CRJUS subject-area at 2000-2999 level)
Co-requisite(s): Nil
Exclusion(s): Nil
ASCED: 099903
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Brief description of the Unit

The unit explores justice responses with First Nations peoples, people with disabilities, women and the LGBTQI community within the justice system. The unit provides a contextual and theoretical overview of the historical origins and development of the justice system and how these origins have informed the justice system response to difference. The concept of justice, access to justice and the implications of differential response will also be explored. Contemporary and innovative state, national and international initiatives to address difference will be examined. The unit will draw on case studies from law, policy and programmatic reform to better understand the challenges for justice agencies to ensure an accessible and equitable justice response in a diverse society.

Grade Scheme: Graded (HD, D, C, P, MF, F, XF)
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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
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Topics may include:
1. Justice concepts:
- Theories of difference in justice system
- Human rights frameworks
- Media representation of crime among diverse populations.
2. Gender:
- Feminist perspectives
- Gendered Crime: power and violence
- Royal Commission into Family Violence
- Sexual assault reforms.
3. First Nations Peoples:
- First Nations relationship with government and justice (historical overview)
- Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
- Aboriginal Justice Agreement.
4. Disability:
- Disability theories
- Historical perspectives of disability
- Villains, vulnerability and protection
- Justice response to disability.

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