Crime, Criminology, and Critique

Criminology is the study of crime, social harm and how we respond to it. In this subject, you will take on the big questions of the discipline: What is crime? Who is the criminal? Criminologists seek to understand and explain the complex causes and motivations for crime and how categorisations of crime can change according to time, place and politics. In this subject, you will examine a range of topics including youth crime, street crime, crime in the home and crimes of the powerful. You will learn how understandings of crime inform and produce a range of state responses and varied experiences of justice/injustice. Given the local context of Australia, we pay particular attention to crime as a settler colonial construct. Through your reading, classroom activities with peers and

探讨犯罪现象、犯罪学理论与批判视角。

• 1Explain key concepts and terms within criminology
• 2Identify a range of theoretical perspectives within criminology
• 3Discuss the effects of criminalisation on various groups within society
• 4Critically evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of techniques used to measure, classify and define crime and criminality.