Youth Justice and Crime

CRI30010 12.5 Credit Points Hawthorn, Online Available to incoming Study Abroad and Exchange students

Duration

  • One Semester or equivalent

Contact hours

  • 36 hours face to face, 90 hours SOL

On-campus unit delivery combines face-to-face and digital learning. For Online unit delivery, learning is conducted exclusively online.

2021 teaching periods

Hawthorn

Higher Ed. Semester 1

Dates:
1 Mar 21 - 30 May 21

Results:
6 Jul 21

Last self enrolment:
14 Mar 21

Census:
31 Mar 21

Last withdraw without fail:
16 Apr 21
More teaching periods

Swinburne Online

Teaching Period 1 Teaching Period 3

Dates:
8 Mar 21 - 6 Jun 21

Results:
29 Jun 21

Last self enrolment:
21 Mar 21

Census:
2 Apr 21

Last withdraw without fail:
23 Apr 21

Dates:
8 Nov 21 - 13 Feb 22

Results:
8 Mar 22

Last self enrolment:
21 Nov 21

Census:
3 Dec 21

Last withdraw without fail:
31 Dec 21

Prerequisites

CRI10001 Criminology: Theory and Practice
 OR 
 CRI10002 Fundamentals of Criminology
 

Aims and objectives

This unit focusses on a specific aspect of the criminal justice system, offering students an opportunity for close analytical engagement with the laws, theories and practices pertaining to juveniles who offend. The unit will introduce and challenge students to understand the laws pertaining to juvenile offending and the means of analysis to understand the motivations, which may result in juveniles coming into contact with the criminal justice system. As such, students will become familiar with various statutory regimes that mediate their contact across the states of Australia and also with the theoretical explanations and methodologies to understand and engage in response to this category of crime.


Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:
1. Develop an understanding and theoretically-informed perspective of the criminal genesis of juvenile crime.
2. Evaluate the effectiveness of the criminal justice system and the laws that pertain to juvenile offending through analysis, research and consultation with student research partners.
3. Evaluate the effectiveness of the criminal justice system through an analysis of law making and sentencing responses to juvenile crime.
4. Evaluate the criminal justice system in its interactions with indigenous youth.
5. Analyse and develop evidence-based recommendations for adaptions and changes to the criminal justice system as it relates to juvenile crime.

Courses with unit

Bachelor of Criminal Justice and Criminology;
Criminology Major: BA-ARTS3; BA-ARTPROF; BB-ARTBUS1; BB-ARTSC