Evaluate criminal justice interventions for working with young people
committing crimes in Australia.

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The unit will be delivered as follows:
9 x 1 hour facetoface lectures (weeks 1 to 10)
3 x 1 hour online prerecorded lectures (weeks 11 to 13)
11 x 1 hour facetoface tutorials (weeks 2 to 13)
The unit will also include a series of online activities. However these are not compulsory
and nonassessable items.
Please refer to the Weekly Reading and Tutorial Program available on vUWS for a
week by week breakdown of readings online activities and tutorial questions for this
unit.
Attendance
Students are expected to attend all facetoface lectures and tutorials and to participate
actively in all class activities including online activities. Failure to do so may seriously
undermine a students ability to complete the unit satisfactorily. Attendance records
may be consulted in the assessment of any requests for extensions or Special
Consideration. You should advise the Unit Coordinator or your tutor if you are unable to
attend a tutorial due to illness or misadventure.
This unit is worth 10 credit points indicating that success in the unit requires at least 10
hours work per week. Two hours will be lecture/tutorial time one hour will be online
activities and the remaining 7 hours should be devoted to reading and study
assessment preparation and revision. In this unit you will need to devote much of this
time to reading the set reading materials.
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Textbook
Textbook
There is no set textbook for this unit. A detailed reading list will be made available on
vUWS.
Readings
Set readings for each week of the learning program are listed in the table entitled Unit
Weekly Schedule and in the Weekly Reading and Tutorial Program. The set readings are
in electronic form and available from the units homepage on vUWS. The additional
readings listed in the Weekly Tutorial Program can be located by searching for
them in the library catalogue. If you have any difficulties locating the additional readings
please seek assistance from the library staff.
Other Resources
Key weblinks:
Weblinks to resources related to the assessment tasks and to your broader learning
objectives are available from the units homepage on vUWS.
Referencing
The referencing requirement for units in Social Science is the Harvard style. Full details
on the Harvard style of referencing can be found at:
http://library.uws.edu.au/FILES/cite_Harvard.pdf
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SECTION TWO: Assessment Information
Course Outcomes Click on this link to see the courselevel learning outcomes (or graduate attributes)
you need to have attained when you graduate: http://tinyurl.com/ssapclo
Unit Outcomes
On completion of this unit students will be able to:
1. Summarise the relevant multidisciplinary literature relating to juvenile
crime patterns of offending and the impacts of societal responses to
young people;
2. Assess social and political forces that have shaped governmental responses
to juvenile crime worldwide;
3. Analyse discourses and practices used to control and prevent juvenile crime
in Australia;
4. Evaluate criminal justice interventions for working with young people
committing crimes in Australia.
5. Write effectively using writing styles commonly used in criminal justice
settings.
Unit to Course This unit and its unit outcomes relate to the learning outcomes of the course as
shown in the relevant Table of the Course Outcomes link above.