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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.
Pre-requisites: Students must have completed 30 credit points of Level two LST, LCR or LAW subjects and 30 credit points of Humanities and Social Sciences or Law subjects.
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.