Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Unit Convenor
Kate Gleeson
Contact via kate.gleeson@mq.edu.au
W3A 622
2-3pm Mondays
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Credit points |
Credit points
3
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Prerequisites |
Prerequisites
(6cp in LAW or LAWS units at 300 level) or (39cp including LAWS260) or admission to GDipArts
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Corequisites |
Corequisites
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Co-badged status |
Co-badged status
This unit is co-taught with LAWS250 and shares a common lecture and online resources.
Students in LAW462 and LAWS250 attend separate tutorials.
Students in LAW462 are required to carry out additional tasks in their assessments appropriate to the level of the unit and to demonstrate understanding of legal principles and apply legal skills.
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Unit description |
Unit description
This unit will explore the dynamic area of public policy development in relation to crime. It will examine how governance frameworks (including legal and regulatory institutions) endeavour to regulate conduct by individuals and corporations, and how these frameworks aim to promote public interests and community welfare. Students will analyse the impact of various stakeholders in the criminal justice system on policy formulation, including in relation to corporate, environmental and moral crimes. They will be challenged to critically analyse real-world reform initiatives and to appreciate how criminological expertise and modern concepts in governance theory (such as reintegrative shaming, responsive regulation and restorative justice) are articulated in legal and policy-making forums. Students will also analyse how courts respond to criminological expertise, building on their understanding of core concepts of criminal justice.
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Information about important academic dates including deadlines for withdrawing from units are available at https://www.mq.edu.au/study/calendar-of-dates
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
Name | Weighting | Due |
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Current Events | 20% | 25 August 2014 9:00am |
Theory Exam | 30% | 7 October 2014 9:00am |
Report | 50% | 17 November 2014 9:00am |
Due: 25 August 2014 9:00am
Weighting: 20%
Students will be required to identify, analyse and critique four recent (not more than three months prior to the commencement of this unit) current events related to crime, including regulation of human or corporate conduct, reported in the Australian media.
Students will also be required to carry out legal research in order to identify relevant case law and legislation related to their selected current event examples.
(word length: 1000-1200 words excluding bibliography)
Due: 7 October 2014 9:00am
Weighting: 30%
Students will be required to demonstrate their understanding of the theoretical principles canvassed in the unit and apply these to the current events selected in their first assessment task.
(word length: 1200-1500 words excluding bibliography)
Due: 17 November 2014 9:00am
Weighting: 50%
Students will be required to submit a research paper on an assigned topic which consolidates their learning in the unit.
(word length: 3000-3500 words excluding bibliography)
Compulsory On-Campus Sessions for external students are held on 26 and 27 September 2014.
This unit requires students to attend or audit online (through Echo360) a weekly lecture and attend a weekly tutorial.
In addition, students are required to access the unit's iLearn page to review online content including assigned readings (available through e-reserve linked through iLearn) and pre-recorded lecture content (approx. 1 hour/week). Before you attend the first lecture you should have logged on to Ilearn and watched/listened to the assigned pre-recorded content (of approximately 1 hour).
Student workload, in accordance with university guidelines, is 3 hours per credit point per week (over a 15 week term), and can be estimated as follows:
22 hours - attendance of lectures and tutorials
55 hours - readings, review of online content and self-study
63 hours - assessment tasks
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135 hours total
Students will also be required to use a computer to interact with online research databases and web-based research tools. This unit's ilearn page will also contain additional lessons with multimedia content to facilitate learning.
Week |
Week Starts |
Lectures |
Tutorials |
Assessment (see Ilearn for weekly readings) |
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1 |
4/8/14 |
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2 |
11/8/14 |
Neoliberalism, regulation and third wave governance
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Policy and the Public Interest |
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3 |
18/8/14 |
Neoliberalism, crime, risk and responsibility
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Neoliberalism, regulation and Third Wave Governance |
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4 |
25/8/14 |
Restorative justice and reintegrative shaming – the case of the Royal Commission into institutional responses to child abuse
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Neoliberalism and crime |
First assignment due Monday 25 August |
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5 |
1/9/14 |
Responsive regulation – the case of advertising
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Royal Commission into institutional responses to child abuse
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6 |
8/9/14 |
Responsive Regulation – case of lead poisoning
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Senate Inquiry into the sexualisation of children in the contemporary media environment |
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7 |
15/9/14 |
Responsive Regulation – the case of live exports
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Responsive regulation and lead poisoning |
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22/9/14 |
Mid Semester Break |
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29/9/14 |
Mid Semester Break |
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8 |
6/10/14 |
No Lecture (reading week) |
No Tutorials |
Theory Exam due Tuesday 7 October |
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9 |
13/10/14 |
Regulation and the international community – the case of Sea Shepherd
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Responsive regulation and Live exports |
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10 |
20/10/14 |
Responsive regulation – the case of the sex industry |
Whaling, Sea Shepherd and the ICJ |
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11 |
27/10/14 |
The limits of responsive regulation - the Global Financial Crisis
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Responsive regulation and sex work |
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12 |
3/11/14 |
Regulating the regulators: Whitsleblowers and the public interest
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The Global Financial Crisis |
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13 |
10/11/14 |
No Lecture |
Whistleblowers |
NB Final Essay due Monday 17 November |
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24/06/2014 | Nil. |
24/06/2014 | Nil. |
24/06/2014 | Nil. |