ACR302 - Criminology Research

Year:

2024 unit information

Enrolment modes:

Trimester 2: Burwood (Melbourne), Waurn Ponds (Geelong), Online, Community Based Delivery (CBD)*

Credit point(s): 1
Previously coded as: ASL214, ASL310, ASL314
EFTSL value: 0.125
Cohort rule: Nil
Prerequisite:

Students must complete units ACR101 and ACR102, plus any 4 credit points at level 2

Corequisite: Nil
Incompatible with:

ASL214, ASL310, ASL314

Study commitment

Students will on average spend 150-hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit.

This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site.

Scheduled learning activities - campus

6 x 3-hour scheduled delivery per trimester comprising 1 x 1-hour lecture and 1 x 2-hour seminar

Scheduled learning activities - online

6 x 1-hour lecture (recordings provided) and 6 x 2-hour online seminar per trimester

Note:

*Community Based Delivery (CBD) is for National Indigenous Knowledges, Education, Research and Innovation NIKERI Institute students only.

Content

This unit examines issues concerning designing criminological research, including research ethics, methodology and data collection, theoretical approaches to research, reviewing existing literature, presenting research findings and the politics of criminological research. The unit explores research methods from a critical perspective, using a combination of evidence from Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States. On successful completion of this unit, students will have acquired the skills to conceptualise and operationalise a research topic, and design a research proposal to investigate a range of criminological issues. The unit is also the ‘capstone’ for students completing a Criminology major sequence or Bachelor degree.

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