2009 Course Handbook
SOC361: Justice and the Social Order
The course will explore sociological theories and practices of social and criminal justice, discipline, and punishment in historical and contemporary settings. The course invites students to consider the breadth of sociological theory, ideologies, and policy on criminal justice, social justice, social order, discipline, and punishment.
These theories will be introduced giving social and historical context for each approach, basic concepts and contemporary examples, as well as critique. Students will be encouraged to develop a critical understanding of the relevance of these theories to current practices and ideologies by presenting and discussing case study examples in tutorials. Issues of social class, power structures, gender, indigenousness, ethnicity, social inclusion and exclusion, and the evolution of our so called 'freedoms' will be explored throughout the course. Critical reflection on social and criminal justice, discipline and punishment in theory and in practice in Australian and international milieu will be encouraged, particularly linking justice, discipline and punishment to concepts of citizenship and the state, and connecting the ideals with the realities of freedom, liberty and justice in the current social order.
| Credit Points: | 4 |
| Contact Hours: | 3 |
| When Offered: | D1 - Day; Offered in the first half-year |
| Staff Contact: | Dr Peter Rogers |
| Prerequisites: | 40cp |
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| Unit Designations: | Social Science |
| Assessed As: | Graded |
| Offered By: |
Department of Sociology |
Timetable Information
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