GEND310 Gender, Crime and Justice

Feminist criminological approaches, contemporary debates around gender and justice, and critical examination of traditional and alternative responses.

This paper will engage in a critical exploration of theoretical and policy debates in criminology and in the criminal justice system, with an explicit focus on issues of gender and gendered violence. We will explore critical criminological approaches and feminist perspectives, using these to study a range of issues: sex work, trafficking, prisons, restorative justice and online harassment.

This paper can be taken at both 200- and 300-levels. All students attend the same lecture. The 300-level students have their own tutorial stream and set of assessment tasks.

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Prerequisite

18 200-level GEND or SOCI points or 108 points

Restriction

GEND 210

Schedule C

Arts and Music

Contact

sgsw@otago.ac.nz

More information link

View more information on the Department of Sociology, Gender and Social Work's website

Teaching staff

Course co-ordinator: Dr Fairleigh Gilmour

Paper Structure

This paper is in three parts. The first explores the development of feminist and intersectional criminological research. The second explores women and prisons. The third module examines alternative understandings of justice.

Teaching Arrangements

Two 50-minute lectures per week, plus a weekly tutorial

Textbooks

Textbooks are not required for this paper. There is a course reader.

Graduate Attributes Emphasised

Communication, critical thinking.
View more information about Otago's graduate attributes.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this paper, students should

• Have developed a broad knowledge of the relationships between gender, justice and intersectionality
• Be able to think critically about gender, crime and the criminal justice system
• Have developed skills for clear and effective intellectual argumentation

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