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Advanced Criminological Theories
Postgraduate | GRF-CCJ744 | 2019
Course information for 2019 intake
View information for 2020 course intakeCritically evaluate criminological theory and empirical research for crime policy and practice. Study crime and the urban environment, control and rational choice theories, inequality and opportunity, and social reactions to crime.
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- -
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Advanced Criminological Theories
About this subject
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.
- 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
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.
- Assignment (50%)
- Online Discussion (30%)
- Quizzes (20%)
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Entry requirements
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Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
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