Overview
What is Criminology? The concepts of crime and the criminal; the nature of crime; the causes of crime; media and crime; race, gender and class issues in crime.
About this paper
| Paper title | Criminology |
|---|---|
| Subject | Law |
| EFTS | 0.1 |
| Points | 15 points |
| Teaching period | 1st Non standard period (13 November 2023 - 16 December 2023) (On campus) |
| Domestic Tuition Fees ( NZD ) | $710.30 |
| International Tuition Fees | Tuition Fees for international students are elsewhere on this website. |
- Prerequisite
- LAWS 201 and 66 further LAWS points
- Pre or Corequisite
- Any 200-level LAWS paper not already passed
- Restriction
- LAWS 310
- Limited to
- LLB, LLB(Hons)
- Notes
- Not all optional papers will be available in any given year.
- Contact
- law@otago.ac.nz
- More information link
- For more information view the Faculty of Law's website
- Teaching staff
To be confirmed when paper is next offered.
- Textbooks
- Course materials are provided by the Faculty.
- Graduate Attributes Emphasised
- Global perspective, Interdisciplinary perspective, Lifelong learning, Scholarship, Communication, Critical thinking, Cultural understanding, Information literacy, Research, Self-motivation.
View more information about Otago's graduate attributes. - Learning Outcomes
- Understand the discipline of criminology
- Critically examine the concept of crime and why crime is defined as it is
- Contrast several different definitions and concepts of crime indicating the strengths and weaknesses of each
- Describe the processes whereby images of crime are constructed and presented in the mass media
- Explain and critique a number of criminological perspectives
- Understand the concept of white collar crime by applying traditional theories of crime causation to it and assess whether this class of crime is treated differently
Timetable
Overview
What is Criminology? The concepts of crime and the criminal; the nature of crime; the causes of crime; media and crime; race, gender and class issues in crime.
About this paper
| Paper title | Criminology |
|---|---|
| Subject | Law |
| EFTS | 0.1 |
| Points | 15 points |
| Teaching period | Not offered in 2024 (On campus) |
| Domestic Tuition Fees ( NZD ) | $730.20 |
| International Tuition Fees | Tuition Fees for international students are elsewhere on this website. |
- Prerequisite
- LAWS 201 and 66 further LAWS points
- Pre or Corequisite
- Any 200-level LAWS paper not already passed
- Restriction
- LAWS 310
- Limited to
- LLB, LLB(Hons)
- Notes
- Not all optional papers will be available in any given year.
- Contact
- law@otago.ac.nz
- More information link
- For more information view the Faculty of Law's website
- Teaching staff
To be confirmed when paper is next offered.
- Textbooks
- Course materials are provided by the Faculty.
- Graduate Attributes Emphasised
- Global perspective, Interdisciplinary perspective, Lifelong learning, Scholarship, Communication, Critical thinking, Cultural understanding, Information literacy, Research, Self-motivation.
View more information about Otago's graduate attributes. - Learning Outcomes
- Understand the discipline of criminology
- Critically examine the concept of crime and why crime is defined as it is
- Contrast several different definitions and concepts of crime indicating the strengths and weaknesses of each
- Describe the processes whereby images of crime are constructed and presented in the mass media
- Explain and critique a number of criminological perspectives
- Understand the concept of white collar crime by applying traditional theories of crime causation to it and assess whether this class of crime is treated differently