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GEND3010 – Gender, Crime and Violence

2022 – Session 2, In person-scheduled-weekday, North Ryde

General Information

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Unit convenor and teaching staff Unit convenor and teaching staff
Amanda Wise
amanda.wise@mq.edu.au
Credit points Credit points
10
Prerequisites Prerequisites
130cp at 1000 level or above
Corequisites Corequisites
Co-badged status Co-badged status
Unit description Unit description
A growing body of research from criminology, psychology, sociology, media studies, and gender studies focuses on gender in relation to crime and violence. How are the social constructions of masculinity and femininity, within and across cultures, implicated in the conduct and character of crime and violence? The unit explores this question across a range of topics. Gender is complicated by other dimensions of difference: race and ethnicity, class, religion, nationality and sexuality, and these are also considered. The gendered constructions of both perpetrators and victims of crime and violence are considered. The focus on conflicts and displacements makes the unit go from the personal to the transnational and from the intimate sphere to global geopolitics.

Important Academic Dates

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Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:

  • ULO1: Demonstrate an understanding of gender, crime and violence from a transnational perspective.
  • ULO2: Demonstrate an understanding of the complexity and significance of feminist approaches to criminology and an intersectional framework for giving a gendered account of crime.
  • ULO3: Analyse critically a variety of texts (documentaries, novels, media articles, poems, news clips) and data sources concerning gender within their historical, social and theoretical contexts.
  • ULO4: Demonstrate the ability to examine the relationship between forms of knowledge and forms of everyday living.
  • ULO5: Demonstrate the ability to examine the ways in which the social construction of gender is implicated in the conduct and character of crime
  • ULO6: Demonstrate an understanding of the importance of race when we discussing and analysing crime.

General Assessment Information

Unless a Special Consideration request has been submitted and approved, a 5% penalty (of the total possible mark) will be applied each day a written assessment is not submitted, up until the 7th day (including weekends). After the 7th day, a mark of ‘0’ (zero) will be awarded even if the assessment is submitted. Submission time for all written assessments is set at 11.55pm. A 1-hour grace period is provided to students who experience a technical issue. This late penalty will apply to non-timed sensitive assessment (incl essays, reports, posters, portfolios, journals, recordings etc). Late submission of time sensitive tasks (such as tests/exams, performance assessments/presentations, scheduled practical assessments/labs etc) will only be addressed by the unit convenor in a Special consideration application. Special Consideration outcome may result in a new question or topic

Assessment Tasks

Name Weighting Hurdle Due
Weekly Answers 20% No Weeks 2 to 12
Personal Reflection 35% No Week 6
Research Essay 45% No Week 13

Weekly Answers

Assessment Type 1: Participatory task
Indicative Time on Task 2: 26 hours
Due: Weeks 2 to 12
Weighting: 20%

 

Regular contribution to the weekly group discussion in tutorials is a requirement of this unit. Participation should provide evidence of the student having done the readings, listened to the lecture and thought about the topics in relation to both local and global contexts.

 
On successful completion you will be able to:
  • Demonstrate an understanding of gender, crime and violence from a transnational perspective.
  • Demonstrate an understanding of the complexity and significance of feminist approaches to criminology and an intersectional framework for giving a gendered account of crime.
  • Analyse critically a variety of texts (documentaries, novels, media articles, poems, news clips) and data sources concerning gender within their historical, social and theoretical contexts.
  • Demonstrate the ability to examine the relationship between forms of knowledge and forms of everyday living.
  • Demonstrate the ability to examine the ways in which the social construction of gender is implicated in the conduct and character of crime
  • Demonstrate an understanding of the importance of race when we discussing and analysing crime.

Personal Reflection

Assessment Type 1: Essay
Indicative Time on Task 2: 15 hours
Due: Week 6
Weighting: 35%

 

This task requires students to critically analyse a selected media article using academic reference material, while also reflecting on themselves and the notions they have learnt. The length of the essay is 1500 words (10% leeway accepted).

 
On successful completion you will be able to:
  • Demonstrate an understanding of gender, crime and violence from a transnational perspective.
  • Demonstrate an understanding of the complexity and significance of feminist approaches to criminology and an intersectional framework for giving a gendered account of crime.
  • Analyse critically a variety of texts (documentaries, novels, media articles, poems, news clips) and data sources concerning gender within their historical, social and theoretical contexts.
  • Demonstrate the ability to examine the relationship between forms of knowledge and forms of everyday living.
  • Demonstrate the ability to examine the ways in which the social construction of gender is implicated in the conduct and character of crime
  • Demonstrate an understanding of the importance of race when we discussing and analysing crime.

Research Essay

Assessment Type 1: Essay
Indicative Time on Task 2: 31 hours
Due: Week 13
Weighting: 45%

 

Research and compose a 2000 word essay in response to one of the questions provided.

 
On successful completion you will be able to:
  • Demonstrate an understanding of gender, crime and violence from a transnational perspective.
  • Demonstrate an understanding of the complexity and significance of feminist approaches to criminology and an intersectional framework for giving a gendered account of crime.
  • Analyse critically a variety of texts (documentaries, novels, media articles, poems, news clips) and data sources concerning gender within their historical, social and theoretical contexts.
  • Demonstrate the ability to examine the relationship between forms of knowledge and forms of everyday living.
  • Demonstrate the ability to examine the ways in which the social construction of gender is implicated in the conduct and character of crime

1 If you need help with your assignment, please contact:

  • the academic teaching staff in your unit for guidance in understanding or completing this type of assessment
  • the Writing Centre for academic skills support.

2 Indicative time-on-task is an estimate of the time required for completion of the assessment task and is subject to individual variation

Delivery and Resources

Recorded lectures, on campus tutorials, online participation

Readings in Leganto

Links to other sources in iLearn

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Unit information based on version 2022.03 of the Handbook