Gender, Crime and Justice

• • Module 1: Core concepts for gender, crime & justice. This module introduces the course structure and activities. It provides foundational knowledge about social categories such as sex, gender, sexuality and key critical thinking skills for the course.
  • Module 2: Critical data literacy for gender crime & justice. This module discusses the gendered landscape of crime. It provides critical data literacy skills for understanding research and statistics on gender, crime, and justice.
  • Module 3: Intersectional dynamics of gender and crime. The module explores the intersection of gender with other social categories such as race, Indigeneity, ethnicity, socioeconomic status. This module investigates how crime victimisation and perpetration are simultaneously shaped by multiple social categories by looking at issues such as domestic violence, sexual abuse, and online abuse.
  • Module 4: Gender, justice & institutions. This module explores how institutions like policing, courts, and corrections respond to gendered crimes.
  • Module 5: Preventing gendered violence. This module discusses approaches to preventing gendered crime and violence. It includes topics such as promising programs, policies, and practices, and bystander intervention.

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.

Special requirements

No special 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.

• FInal Exam (40%)
• Written Assessment (60%)