Crime, Inequality and Justice
Single subject — no qualification is awarded on completion. Credits toward the qualifications listed below.
This subject is FEE-HELP eligible, so eligible students can defer the $4,320 fee as a government loan and pay nothing upfront.
Fees and funding are indicative only. Confirm your eligibility and final costs with the provider.
About this subject
This subject was previously known as PICX842 Australia's Approach to Law Enforcement. How do we transform inequalities ingrained in the criminal justice system? This unit examines the relationships between social inequalities and crime and justice. It explores historical and contemporary critiques and methods that challenge and transform this relationship. The unit draws from multiple disciplines to theorise, examine, and re-imagine the understanding of crime and justice. It focuses on social cleavages to explore how inequalities are structured and re-produced by the criminal justice system. We foreground the lived experiences of marginalised individuals and communities impacted by the criminal justice system and critically examine research-based approaches and collaborative solutions that respond to injustices. In doing so, the unit explores the role of the criminal justice system in amplifying and reproducing social inequality, whilst analysing what punishment systems say about us as a society. This approach enables students to understand the relationship between inequality and justice and how to build a ethically-focused response to issues of crime, inequality and justice.
Crime, Inequality and Justice is a standalone subject at Macquarie University in NSW. Completing it does not award a qualification. Credit may apply toward the qualifications listed on this page.
No qualification credit mapping has been indexed for this subject yet. The provider may still grant credit toward a related award — confirm with Macquarie University before enrolling.
Macquarie University is the awarding provider. Recorded study modes are Online. Typical duration is listed as 13 weeks. The subject is listed at 25 credit points. Eligible students may defer fees through FEE-HELP.
Details on this page are compiled from the provider's published subject information and government registers. Fees, intakes and credit rules can change — confirm current details with Macquarie University before enrolling.
Listing facts
- Type
- Single subject
- National code
- MAQ-PICX8042
- Field of education
- Society and culture
- Provider
- Macquarie University
- Credit points
- 25
- Study mode
- Online
- Duration
- 13 weeks
- Qualifications listed
- 0
- FEE-HELP
- Eligible
Prerequisites
Prior study required