Course syllabus

SEMESTER 2, 2017

Lecturer: Dr James Rodgers   (email: j.rodgers@auckland.ac.nz)

Office Hours: Wednesdays 1pm - 3pm, HSB 917               

Lecture Time: Monday 9am – 11am, 401-401 (Engineering  Block 1, Room 401) 

Tutor: Callum Fitzpatrick (cfit023@aucklanduni.ac.nz)

Office Hours: Monday 3:00 - 4:30pm in Social Sciences Building (HSB) 914. 

Tutorials: 

Monday 12pm – 1pm, 105-012 (Clock Tower, Room 012)

Monday 2pm – 3pm, 114-G15 423-340 (Conference Centre, Room 340)

Monday 4pm – 5pm, 105-012 (Clock Tower, Room 012)

Wednesday 3pm – 4pm, 260-009 (Owen G Glenn, Room 009)

Introduction:

This course will look at a number of fundamental and influential debates in criminology, that inform contemporary research and criminal justice policies in New Zealand, Australia, Europe, Britain, the United States and other countries. After an introduction to debates over the main theoretical foundations and currents in the field, topical debates to be discussed and analysed include inequality and crime, the death penalty, genetics and crime, state crime, drugs, the growth in the prison industry, Maori and Indigenous justice in New Zealand and elsewhere, class and crime, gender and crime, ‘zero tolerance’, anti-social behaviour, and prison abolitionism.

Course Reading, Assessments, and Schedule can all be found in the Course Handbook located in the Files tab.