Carcerality (CRIM40005)
HonoursPoints: 12.5On Campus (Parkville)
Overview
| Availability | February |
|---|---|
| Fees | Look up fees |
Cultural, ideological, and political attachment to involuntary detention persists in most societies across the globe. This subject examines carcerality in its numerous incarnations and interrogates our attachment to it. The subject invites students to critically examine things we often overlook or take for granted as ‘natural’ or ‘commonsensical’. Students will learn and employ theoretical tools and empirical data to scrutinise the reasons, justifications, ‘effectiveness’, and consequences of our societal zeal to criminalise and incarcerate individuals and communities.
The subject aims at helping learners to appreciate punishment and detention as a complex social, political, historical, and economic phenomenon, rather than merely a purported crime-control measure. Equipping students with analytical tools, the subject promotes the development of a critical stance on how we as a society define, create, and perpetuate harm and social divisions. The subject offers students an opportunity to grow intellectually, becoming critical about public discourses and government policies concerning crime and punishment, whilst also facilitating checking one's own preconceptions and interrogating personal prejudices.
Intended learning outcomes
Students who have successfully completed this subject should be able to:
- Explain main social and penological debates about the nature, purpose, and effects of punishment and involuntary detention
- Use key theoretical concepts and empirical data in discussion of social problems of crime, criminalisation, and punishment
- Highlight the role of colonialism, punitiveness, gender, and inequality in criminalisation and incarceration of individuals and communities
- Critique societal attachment to involuntary detention.
Generic skills
Students who have successfully completed this subject should be able to:
- Recognise their individual epistemic position
- Conduct independent literature research
- Apply theories and analytical tools to current events, public debates, and topical social issues
- Demonstrate capacity for critical thinking and analysis
- Present arguments in succinct and persuasive written and oral forms.
Last updated: 8 November 2024
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
None
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
Recommended background knowledge
Criminology at Undergraduate level.
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home
Last updated: 8 November 2024
Assessment
| Description | Timing | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
Low-stakes online quiz
| From Week 4 to Week 6 | 10% |
A policy brief
| Week 4 | 35% |
Reading reflection (the assessment includes 10 synopses of the required readings, up to 100 words each)
| Last week of seminars | 10% |
Research essay
| Week 11 | 45% |
| Hurdle requirement: 1. Attendance hurdle requirement: This subject has a minimum requirement of 80% attendance at tutorials, seminars, or workshops. | Throughout the teaching period | N/A |
| Hurdle requirement: 2. Late Penalty and Assessment hurdle requirement: Assessment submitted late without an approved extension will be penalised at five per cent (5%) of the possible marks available for the assessment task per day or part thereof. All pieces of assessment must be submitted to pass the subject. Each submitted assessment must be complete, constitute a genuine attempt to address the requirements of the task and will not be accepted after 20 University business days from the original assessment due date without written approval. | Throughout the teaching period | N/A |
Last updated: 8 November 2024
Dates & times
- February
Principal coordinator Anton Symkovych Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Total of 24 contact hours: A 3 hour seminar per week, for eight weeks, from the teaching start date. Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 26 February 2024 to 26 April 2024 Last self-enrol date 8 March 2024 Census date 15 March 2024 Last date to withdraw without fail 26 April 2024 Assessment period ends 19 May 2024 February contact information
Time commitment details
Total of 170 hours
What do these dates mean
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- Student Learning Entitlement. This applies to all students enrolled in a Commonwealth Supported Place (CSP).
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Last updated: 8 November 2024
Further information
- Texts
- Related Handbook entries
This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Course Executive Master of Arts Course Master of Criminology Course Master of Social Policy Specialisation (formal) Criminology Specialisation (formal) Criminology - Links to additional information
- Available through the Community Access Program
About the Community Access Program (CAP)
This subject is available through the Community Access Program (also called Single Subject Studies) which allows you to enrol in single subjects offered by the University of Melbourne, without the commitment required to complete a whole degree.
Please note Single Subject Studies via Community Access Program is not available to student visa holders or applicants
Entry requirements including prerequisites may apply. Please refer to the CAP applications page for further information.
Additional information for this subject
Subject coordinator approval required
- Available to Study Abroad and/or Study Exchange Students
Last updated: 8 November 2024