Law and (Dis)order

• • • Socio-legal approach.
  • • Legal consciousness.
  • • Media and moral panics.
  • • Statistics and the law.
  • • Social order.
  • • Crime, criminalisation and justice.
  • • Global experiences of the ‘rule of law’.

Others

Past La Trobe University students who have previously completed LST1LLC (Law and Legal Consciousness), or LST1CCR (Crime and Criminology), or LST1LAS (Law and Legal Consciousness) are ineligible to enrol in this subject.

Additional requirements

No additional requirements

Are there differences in how people understand and experience law? How does law relate to social order and social change? And what is justice? In this subject, we examine law and legal issues as sites of contest where conflicting interests, understandings and agendas come into play. The insights and methods of the social sciences are used to explore law's interconnection with cultural, economic and political contexts as well as its role in constituting social relations within and across communities. Attention is focused upon three key themes: law, legal consciousness and social order; crime, criminalization and justice; and global experiences of 'the rule of law.' Included within each of these is consideration of key concepts and contemporary issues of local and global significance. This subject considers how citizens, states and the law advance and sometimes impede cross cultural understanding, equality and human rights. This subject is a first year core for the 'Crime, Justice and Legal Studies' interdisciplinary major in the Bachelor of Arts and a first year core for the Bachelor of Criminology.

• Analytical Exercise (400 words) (10%)
• Critical Media Analysis (1200 words equivalent) (30%)
• 2 online quizzes (equivalent to 1200 words) (30%)
• One 1200 word Take Home Exam (30%)

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