Postgraduate GRF-CCJ744-2023
Advanced Criminological Theories
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Duration
13 weeks
Study method
100% Online
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Assessments
100% online
Prior study
Not required
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Subject details
After successfully completing this subject you should be able to:
- Critically evaluate criminological theory and related empirical research
- Summarize central criminological constructs and methodological approaches for operationalizing and testing these constructs to evaluate criminological theory
- Evaluate the implications of criminological theory and research for crime policy and practice
- Acquire and improve core skills and competencies relevant to criminology, and in line with the Griffith graduate, including: Conduct the criminological research necessary to produce independent written work that highlights key knowledge and identifies relevant knowledge gaps; Summarise extensive literature; Critical evaluation of academic literature and research; Academic writing; Manage time and multiple projects.
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- Module 1: Environmental Criminology: Time, Place and Crime
- Module 2: Developmental and Life Course Criminology
- Module 3: Criminal Justice System Impacts on Offending
- Module 4: Gender, Race/Ethnicity and Crime
In order to enrol in this subject, you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:
Core
- GRF-MCJ-MAS-2023
Elective
- GRF-FMH-GCE-2023
- GRF-FMH-MAS-2023
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
This subject helps students develop deep understanding of the organising categories and central claims of a range of modern criminological perspectives of criminology. The main problems, questions and ideas that have shaped modern criminological thought are explored and attention is paid throughout to the contexts that shape the emergence and reception of modern criminological theory and to the modes of social intervention that different criminological perspectives expressly or implicitly propose. Topics covered will vary from year to year but are likely to include: crime and the urban environment, developmental and control theories, routine activities and rational choice theories, crime, inequality and opportunity, crime and culture, and social reactions to crime.
- Evaluation of Empirical Research (50%)
- Online Discussion (30%)
- Quizzes (20%)
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