ASC320 - Sex, Crime and Justice in An Electronic Age

Unit details

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Year:2019 unit information
Enrolment modes:Trimester 3: Online
Credit point(s):1
EFTSL value:0.125
Trimester 3 Unit Chair:

Grazyna Zajdow

Prerequisite:

At least eight credit points towards your degree

Corequisite:

Nil

Incompatible with: ASL320
Scheduled learning activities - cloud (online):

1 x 1 hour online Seminar per week

Note:

While this unit will discuss the social changes around sexual identity and the internet, as well as sex crimes on the net, students will not be required to, nor be able to, access internet pornography sites. University policy clearly states that users of university servers are prohibited from accessing pornographic or other such sites and the unit team thoroughly endorses this policy.

Content

This fully on-line unit will explore the way that electronic modes of communication and the emergence of virtual communities are transforming the way we live. This unit examines issues such as the presentation of the self in virtual networks, social relations online, new forms of criminal behaviour and the regulatory responses to these developments. Importantly, the techniques of social science research and theory will be used to evaluate and understand these developments. This unit will enable students to research the area and critically enhance their capacity to understand how virtual forms of communication and interaction raise new dilemmas for the study of crime and justice, social relations and identity. A range of disciplines (sociology, criminology and gender studies) are used to understand these changes and provide the means to actively participate in deliberation on how living in the electronic age produces both continuity and change to our sense of self, society and space.

Assessment

Assessment 1 (Individual) - Journal (1200 words) - 30%

Assessment 2 (Individual) - Report (2000 words) - 50%

Assessment 3 (Individual) - Quiz (800 words or equivalent) - 20%

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