JST204 Crime, Delinquency and Social Welfare (8)
CSU Discipline Area: Justice Studies (JUSTU)
Duration: One session
Abstract:
This subject examines law, policy and theory with regard to specific areas where criminal justice agencies and welfare agencies interact, primarily in the juvenile justice and child welfare systems.
+ Subject Availability Modes and Locations
| Session 2 | |
|---|---|
| Internal | Bathurst |
| Internal | Port Macquarie |
| Distance | Bathurst |
Continuing students should consult the SAL for current offering details: JST204
Where differences exist between the Handbook and the SAL, the SAL should be taken as containing the correct subject offering details.
Enrolment restrictions:
Not available to students who have completed 24288 Crime Delinquency and Social Welfare
Objectives:
Upon successful completion of this subject, students should:
- be able to demonstrate an understanding that the category of 'youth' is a relatively modern term and culturally relative
- be able to demonstrate an understanding of the historical foundations of the modern system of juvenile justice and child welfare
- be able to provide a general overview of the statutory framework of intervention with respect to juvenile offenders and other children and juveniles deemed in need of 'care' and their families
- be able to critically analyse the institutional frameworks and principal sites of interventions into the lives of children and families, including policing, schooling, child welfare and the children's court
- be able to demonstrate an understanding of the effects of, especially the inequalities produced and/or compounded by, this network of agencies and practices
- be able to demonstrate an understanding of the relationships between 'deviancy', 'delinquency' and criminal behaviour in furthering the understanding of patterns of offending
- be able to demonstrate an understanding of alternatives to judicially processing young offenders, specifically focusing on pre-trial diversion, cautioning schemes, youth conferencing and other community based prevention and control initiatives
Syllabus:
The subject will cover the following topics:
- Juvenile justice and child welfare in history - Children, juveniles and state intervention: the official picture - Legal grounds for state intervention - Family interventions - Policing juveniles - Schooling and juvenile justice - Punishment and welfare: the criminalisation process - Contemporary issues and perspectives
The information contained in the 2013 CSU Handbook was accurate at the date of publication: 24 April 2013. The University reserves the right to vary the information at any time without notice.