ACR704 - Public Criminology and Criminological Knowledge
| Year: | 2024 unit information |
|---|---|
| Enrolment modes: | Trimester 2: Burwood (Melbourne), Online From 2025: |
| Credit point(s): | 1 |
| EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
| Prerequisite: | Nil |
| Corequisite: | Nil |
| Incompatible with: | Nil |
| Study commitment | On average students will spend 150-hours per trimester in guided learning, individual study, research and assessment activities This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site. |
| Scheduled learning activities - campus | 5 x 2-hour seminars per trimester Online independent and collaborative learning activities including 5 x 1-hour recorded lectures per trimester |
| Scheduled learning activities - online | Online independent and collaborative learning activities including 5 x 2-hour online seminars per trimester |
Content
This unit addresses the extent to which criminology represents a public enterprise. The construction and utility of criminological knowledge is often highly politicised and publicised. What we know about the processes by which criminal justice knowledges are accumulated, documented, accessed and disseminated is highly contested and debated within diverse social and political environments. These environments are themselves produced and re-produced by dialectical discourses that reinforce dominant knowledges, that are themselves hierarchical. In national and international societies, what counts as criminological knowledge and what doesn’t is therefore as complex as it is intrinsically bound up in politicised processes of communication, which prioritise certain forms of criminological knowledge and expertise over others. This unit critically interrogates the construction, dissemination and impact of knowledges about crime, justice, and criminality. Students will learn to critically analyse what counts and what is prioritised as criminological knowledge and why.
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