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Critical Issues in Criminology

Understanding Crime

Since the eighteenth century, Western societies have sought to explain systematically the causes of crime and criminality. In this subject you will explore how different understandings of crime have emerged as a response to changing social, political, and economic contexts. You will also explore the usefulness of these understandings for explaining and responding to crime today.Through a critical lens, you will consider how certain behaviours in our society have variously been understood as social issues, deviance, and crimes. You will investigate the complex nature of crime and offending by applying criminological theories in order to reflect on the current criminal justice climate. By understanding the context of crime, theories can further inform practical responses to crime within and beyond the criminal justice system.

This subject will employ cutting-edge thinking to examine criminology&#39;s key concepts, debates, and challenges. It will demonstrate how criminology&#39;s focus, function, and practice continues to evolve in relation to such thinking and how this produces diverse and changing policy responses to crime and social harm. This subject will consider various contemporary and historical case studies to examine these shifts. These will include decolonising criminology, the criminalisation of trans and gender diverse people, offshore detention, criminological approaches to the climate crisis, and movements for abolition.

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