Gender, Crime and Justice

• • Course introduction, gender and intersectional patterns of 'offending'/criminalisation and victimisation
  • Feminist criminology
  • Putting the gender of men into criminology
  • Queer criminology
  • Gender and interpersonal physical violence
  • Gender and sexual violence
  • Gender, sex work and trafficking
  • Gender, illicit drugs and street crime
  • Gender and crimes of the powerful
  • Gender in the court
  • Cis and transgender imprisonment
  • Prison masculinities

Others

This is not an introductory subject, it is a second year subject. You must have a basic understanding of the first year criminology subjects. Students who have completed more than 2 OUA units (GPA 4.0+) and are planning on completing the Bachelor of Criminology and Criminal Justice are strongly encouraged to enrol in the degree. Part of this process will involve registering your study plan with Griffith University, which will help to ensure that you are studying the required units.

Additional requirements

No additional requirements

Despite the public's obsession with crime, victimisation and criminal justice, despite the morbid fear that crime and victimisation arouses, despite the endless volumes written to account for offending, victimisation and criminal justice processing, gender, the most powerful social factor of all has been virtually ignored by criminologists." (Leonard, 1982). This course explores the persistent and profound differences women and men's experiences of crime. The course considers how gender intersects with other social categories such as race, class, socioeconomic status, and ethnicity to shape crime and responses to it.

• Essay (40%)
• Online Quiz 1 (20%)
• Online Quiz 2 (20%)
• Online Quiz 3 (20%)

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