Youth Justice and Crime

What it covers

This unit focusses on a specific aspect of the criminal justice system, offering students an opportunity for close analytical engagement with the laws, theories, practices and Indigenous knowledges pertaining to young people who offend. The unit will introduce and challenge students to understand the laws pertaining to youth offending and the means of analysis to understand the motivations, which may result in young people coming into contact with the criminal justice system. As such, students will become familiar with various statutory regimes that mediate their contact across the states of Australia and also with the theoretical explanations and methodologies to understand and engage in response to this category of crime.

Assessment

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