CRIM3002Criminal Justice Placement

Available in 2024
Course code

CRIM3002

Units

20 units

Level

3000 level

2024 Course Timetables

Course handbook

Description

Through this course criminal justice students will engage directly with organisations that require criminological input into their policy, evaluation, and professional practices. Under supervision, students will l undertake an external or internal 140-180 hour work placement with appropriate organisations involved in criminal justice research, education, or community engagement. This direct experience will expose students to the discourses and practices of researchers and managers, in order to consider the many complex factors that influence criminological research and policy. The importance of understanding cultural diversity of offenders and victims, as well as strategies to support their human rights in the criminal justice system (CJS), will also be highlighted

Availability2024 Course Timetables

Newcastle City Precinct

  • Summer 1 - 2024
  • Semester 1 - 2024
  • Semester 2 - 2024

Replacing course(s)

This course replaces the following course(s): CRIM3001. Students who have successfully completed CRIM3001 are not eligible to enrol in CRIM3002.

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of the course students will be able to:

1. Apply advanced criminal justice skills relevant to working with a range of criminal justice stakeholders in a vocational setting.

2. Evaluate outcomes for offenders and victims in a vocational setting, demonstrating expertise.

3. Construct a report relating to working with offenders or victims of crime.

4. Show advanced professional knowledge through the undertaking of case-based tasks related to working with offenders and victims of crime in a vocational setting.

5. Critique issues facing criminal justice professionals in the workplace.

6. Employ professional knowledge gained within your own professional practice.

Content

The course will provide students the opportunity to develop a vocational understanding of the criminal justice system (CJS) through work placements.  Vocational places will be sourced from across the CJS, including those within (but not limited to) organisations focused on criminal justice policy, research, and practice, including internal placements within the School of Law and Justice's Centre for Law and Social Justice. Placements with a specific focus on Indigenous content will be encouraged. Activities undertaken will provide students with the skills necessary to describe and critically reflect on a major placement, and discuss the role of criminal justice in policy, management, and research. Students will:

  • Apply for, secure, and complete a vocational placement.
  • Engage with professionals working within the CJS.
  • Collaborate to plan, carry out, and report on an appropriate needs assessment, research project, or evaluation.
  • Complete an 140-180 hour placement with an organisation that requires criminal justice expertise.
  • Record, report and critically reflect on placement experiences.
  • Discuss aspects of criminal justice practice with peers and commissioning agencies.
  • Describe and analyse issues relating to real world research and practice in criminal justice.

Submission of an ethics form and approval is a compulsory requirement to comply with the Course Related Ethics Approval. Students who do not submit the form and receive approval cannot meet the course requirements and will not be assessed. 

Requisite

To enrol in this course students must currently be enrolled in one of the following programs:

Bachelor of Criminology [40270],

Bachelor of Criminology/Bachelor of Laws (Honours) [40272],

Bachelor of Criminology/Bachelor of Psychological Science [40271],

Bachelor of Social Science [10716],

Bachelor of Social Science/Bachelor of Laws (Honours) [12341]

Bachelor of Development Studies/Bachelor of Social Science [40095] and

Bachelor of Psychological Science/Bachelor of Social Science [40291].

Assumed knowledge

40 units of CRIM-coded courses including the completion of CRIM2001

Assessment items

Written Assignment: Placement host overview

Written Assignment: Report

Written Assignment: Reflective Journal

Contact hours

Summer 1 - 2024 - Newcastle City Precinct

Practicum-1
  • Face to Face Off Campus 140 hour(s) per term
  • 140 - 180 hours per term
Seminar-1
  • Face to Face On Campus 2 hour(s) per week(s) for 4 week(s)

Semester 1 - 2024 - Newcastle City Precinct

Practicum-1
  • Face to Face Off Campus 140 hour(s) per term
  • 140 - 180 hours per term
Seminar-1
  • Face to Face On Campus 2 hour(s) per week(s) for 4 week(s)

Semester 2 - 2024 - Newcastle City Precinct

Practicum-1
  • Face to Face Off Campus 140 hour(s) per term
  • 140 - 180 hours per term
Seminar-1
  • Face to Face On Campus 2 hour(s) per week(s) for 4 week(s)

Course outline