CRIME, CRIMINOLOGY, AND CRITIQUE

This course examines the ways that crime is constructed and popularized. Given the localized context of colonial Australia, it pays particular attention to crime as a settler colonial construct. The course requires that students read and think critically about their own assumptions, media representations, and the ways that powerful groups define, measure and regulate crime. By examining a range of topics including youth crime, street crime, crime in the home and crimes of the powerful, this course will consider how understandings of crime inform and produce a range of state responses and varied experiences of justice/injustice.