APG4224 Gender, violence and society: Criminal justice responses
Faculty of Arts
APG4224 Gender, violence and society: Criminal justice responses is a level 4, 6-credit-point, postgraduate unit from the Faculty of Arts, offered in 2020 in Summer B at Clayton. It has no prerequisites.
- Credit points
- 6
- Offered in 2020
- Summer B
- Clayton
- Workload
- 144 hours
- per semester
This is the 2020 handbook entry. See the 2027 entry.
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Requisites
Before APG4224
Prohibitions
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After APG4224
No unit lists APG4224 as a prerequisite in the 2020 handbook.
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Overview
In this unit, students will examine key aspects of criminal justice response to gendered violence and relevant changes in policing and courts. Students will identify a specific area for sustained investigation. Focused on this area, students will undertake a targeted review of the relevant criminological academic literature and complete an independent research exercise. This research will be supervised by the Unit Coordinator with input from other staff as appropriate.
Offerings in 2020
| Teaching period | Campus | Mode |
|---|---|---|
| Summer semester B | Clayton | Flexible |
| Trimester 2 | Clayton | Flexible |
Learning outcomes
When you finish this unit, you should be able to:
- 1
Analyse and explain criminal justice responses to gendered family violence;
- 2
Engage with a variety of critical and theoretical debates focused on legal responses to family violence;
- 3
Identify and critically evaluate the extant literature about this issue;
- 4
Differentiate and appraise a range of methodological approaches that have been used to police family violence;
- 5
Communicate in both oral and written formats about this issue;
- 6
Devise, prepare and complete a research project.
- 7
Students at 4th year level will be able to self-determine the research process, demonstrating a higher level of rigour and discernment in their assessment tasks.
Workload and teaching
Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. A unit requires on average three/four hours of scheduled activities per week. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.
Contacts
- Chief Examiners
- Dr Kate Fitz-Gibbon
- Unit Coordinators
- Dr Kate Fitz-Gibbon
Common questions
What are the prerequisites for APG4224?
APG4224 has no prerequisites.
When is APG4224 offered?
In 2020, APG4224 runs in Summer B at Clayton.
How much work is APG4224?
The handbook expects about 144 hours of study across the semester. No students have rated its difficulty yet.