JST520 Theories of Crime and Deviance (8)
Enrolment Restriction: Not available to students who have completed 42000, JST501. Admission to Master of Social Science (Criminology) or similar Masters degree.
This subject examines major schools of thought derived from, or impinging upon, the sociology of crime, deviance and social control. Attention is directed toward the schools of thought which have emerged in the last 20 years in Britain, U.S., Canada, and Australia. Special focus on critical criminology, left realism, feminism, and post modernism. The subject contains a section on the study of crime fiction, especially detective fiction from Australia, North America and Britain.