ACR707 - Populism and Policing Futures
| 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
Populism in policing and criminal justice focuses on the impacts of democratic participation in otherwise neutral processes. Populism is an increasingly prominent aspect of 21st Century policing and criminal justice administration, with a much deeper and largely unknown history. Available historical examples of populist justice often focus on the lynch mob, which violently sought its own form of justice against the protectives arms of the state, and which usually targeted minority populations. This unit explores how these highly problematic exclusionary and violent effects have shifted into more subtle and formalized modes of ‘self-help’ that often work in tandem with the public police and allied agencies. Students will develop a critical understanding of the different forms and impacts of populist modes of policing, in light of broader developments relating to fear of crime, community insecurity and the shifting roles of the criminal law.
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