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SWTP300 Theories of Justice Administration

10 cp
Prerequisites Nil
Teaching Organisation A variety of teaching and learning strategies such as lectures, tutorials, workshops, laboratory classes and self-directed packages may be utilised. Duration: 3 hours per week for twelve weeks or equivalent.
The unit explores theoretical orientations to justice and correctional methodologies, including notions of social justice and human rights, and philosophical and spiritual/theological perspectives on the human person. The following theoretical discourses will be reviewed and considered in relation to justice and corrections: Social Pathology, Social Disorganisation, Value Conflict, Deviant Behaviour, Labelling, Critical Theory, Feminism, Constructionist, Postmodernism and Post-structuralism. Students will be introduced to a framework for managing competing theories in the workplace. The unit examines the history, development and trends of justice with an emphasis on the Australian context.

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