Crime and Socio-Legal Research
UndergraduateLTU-LST3SLR2025
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- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Prior study needed
- Duration
- 12 weeks
- Start dates
- 3 Mar 2025
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Crime and Socio-Legal Research
About this subject
On successful completion you will be able to:
- Develop and contextualise a basic research proposal by formulating an original research question, define a research topic, and identify basic literature
- Identify and critically evaluate distinctive features of socio-legal and criminological research
- Demonstrate an understanding of different research methods, assess their relative merit when planning and conducting research
- Apply autonomy and judgement recognising and assessing ethical issues associated with conducting research
- Critique sophisticated scholarly work to contextualise your research proposal
- Designing Criminology Research
- Conceptualization and Measurement
- Literature Reviews
- Qualitative Analysis
- Quantitative Analysis
In this subject, you will become familiar with the basic principles and tools used to plan and carry out research focused on Criminology and Socio-Legal Studies. Objectives include: Learning what makes socio-legal and criminological research distinctive; how to write research proposals; how to create a literature review; how to critique scholarly work; how to create and develop an original argument; and how to select suitable research methods to test it (including a selection of qualitative and quantitative research methods typically used in socio-legal and criminological research). Examples used in class cover Australia and other regions in the world, including the U.S. and Latin America.
This is a level 3 subject. Please consider the subject pre-requisites before enrolling. This subject includes live sessions with the expectation of student attendance and participation.
- One 450-word equivalent oral presentation about the proposal's research topic (10%)
- One 900-word brief research proposal including a summary of the topic, research question and hypothesis (20%)
- Quizzes on different aspects of research methods training, equivalent to 1350 words (30%)
- Final Research Proposal Assignment (1800 words assignment) (40%)
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Entry requirements
Others
Pre-requisites: Students must have completed 30 credit points of Level two subjects.
Past La Trobe University students who have previously completed LST3RML (Research Methods In Legal Studies and Political Science) or LST2RML (Research Methods In Legal Studies and Political Science) or LST2SLR (Introduction To Socio-Legal and Political Research) are ineligible to enrol in this subject.
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.
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What to study next?
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
UndergraduateLAT-CRM-DEG
Bachelor of Criminology/Bachelor of Psychological Science
UndergraduateLAT-CPS-DEG
UndergraduateLAT-BUS-DEG
Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Health Sciences
UndergraduateLAT-AHS-DEG
UndergraduateLAT-ART-DEG
Bachelor of Psychological Science
UndergraduateLAT-PYS-DEG
Bachelor of Information Technology
UndergraduateLAT-TEC-DEG
UndergraduateLAT-HSC-DEG
UndergraduateLAT-CYS-DEG
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