CRIM3020 Industry Project: Crime and Justice

This industry project topic supports the development of reflective skills, crucial for advancing students’ learning and improving their awareness of the need to reflect. The theoretic underpinnings discuss the concepts of structural/cultural injustice – justice, which can help students to recognise and address underlying causes of harm and disadvantage in applied projects. The topic provides students with extensive support, is scaffolded and allows for participation of the industry to promote students to gain skills in critical reflection and forward planning. CJ agencies and other service providers will be involved in different ways, including by providing industry projects, and hands-on advice on potential careers. Through its theoretical underpinnings, industry focus and support of productive reflection the topic will stimulate students’ self-reflective ability so they can develop a career in criminal justice and cognate sectors.

This industry project topic aims to:

• Partner students with and/or involve community and government justice agencies to produce research on pressing social problems
• Help students develop career-oriented skills by fostering students’ reflective practice in an innovative capstone skill-focused topic

1. Integrate criminological knowledge and reflective practice skills acquired during the course of the Criminology degree in multiple and diverse industry-oriented projects
2. Prepare a curriculum vitae which can be used to apply for industry related positions
3. Formulate research projects using skills, knowledge and understanding of the CJ sector and its demanding socio-cultural and political contexts
4. Create written and oral presentations using coherent, sophisticated arguments independently and in a group
5. Discuss CJ related issues from a range of perspectives and within local, national and international contexts