Course Coordinator:Nadine McKillop (nmckillo@usc.edu.au) School:School of Law and Society
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Blended learning | Most of your course is on campus but you may be able to do some components of this course online. |
Online |
Online | You can do this course without coming onto campus, unless your program has specified a mandatory onsite requirement. |
Please go to unisc.edu.au for up to date information on the
teaching sessions and campuses where this course is usually offered.
This course outlines historical, theoretical and legislative frameworks that underpin contemporary youth justice practices. You will learn about causes, nature and patterns of youth offending and victimisation, tensions created by the justice-welfare nexus and the role of specialist agencies in creating pathways to desistence in youth offending. You will be introduced to evidence-informed crime prevention initiatives and be taught specific knowledge, skills and approaches required to work effectively with, and support, young people in contact with the youth justice system.
| Activity | Hours | Beginning Week | Frequency |
| Blended learning | |||
| Learning materials – Asynchronous online learning materials | 1hr | Week 1 | 12 times |
| Tutorial/Workshop 1 – Face-to-face tutorial | 2hrs | Week 2 | 10 times |
| Seminar – Course Seminar | 1hr | Week 1 | Once Only |
| Online | |||
| Learning materials – Asynchronous online learning materials | 1hr | Week 1 | 12 times |
| Tutorial/Workshop 1 – Online tutorial | 2hrs | Week 2 | 10 times |
| Seminar – Course Seminar | 1hr | Week 1 | Once Only |
300 Level (Graduate)
12 units
| Course Learning Outcomes On successful completion of this course, you should be able to... | Graduate Qualities Completing these tasks successfully will contribute to you becoming... | |
| 1 | Explain the historical origins, and theoretical, legislative and practice frameworks underpinning contemporary youth practices. |
Knowledgeable Empowered Engaged |
| 2 | Articulate the nature, causes, and consequences of youth crime and victimisation and apply these to specific youth crime problems. |
Creative and critical thinker Empowered Engaged |
| 3 | Critically analyse current issues relevant to youth justice. |
Knowledgeable Creative and critical thinker Empowered Engaged |
| 4 | Describe and evaluate evidence-informed practices for preventing and responding to youth crime and victimisation. |
Creative and critical thinker Empowered Engaged |
| 5 | Apply scholarly writing, research, and reference practices |
Knowledgeable Ethical |
Refer to the UniSC Glossary of terms for definitions of “pre-requisites, co-requisites and anti-requisites”.
Completion of 96 units
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CRM303
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Standard Grading (GRD)
| High Distinction (HD), Distinction (DN), Credit (CR), Pass (PS), Fail (FL). |
Formative assessment activities will be undertaken in tutorials in the lead up to each task, including: discussion of assessment tasks, and practice examples with verbal feedback provided to students as well as self-quizzes for student bench marking.
| Delivery mode | Task No. | Assessment Product | Individual or Group | Weighting % | What is the duration / length? | When should I submit? | Where should I submit it? |
| All | 1 | Literature Review (or component) | Individual | 25% | 1,000 words |
Week 6 | Online Assignment Submission with plagiarism check |
| All | 2 | Written Piece | Individual | 30% | 1,500 words |
Week 10 | Online Assignment Submission with plagiarism check |
| All | 3 | Artefact - Professional | Individual | 45% | 2,500 words |
Week 12 | Online Assignment Submission with plagiarism check |
| All - Assessment Task 1:Literature Review | ||||||||||||||||
| Goal: | Effective prevention and responses to youth crime requires a comprehensive understanding of its causes.The goal of this assessment is to foster a greater understanding of the causes of youth crime. |
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| Product: | Literature Review (or component) | |||||||||||||||
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| Format: | This is an individual assignment. You will be required to undertake a review of current literature, and provide a synthesis on the causes of youth crime. |
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| Generic Skills: | Communication, Problem solving, Information literacy |
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| All - Assessment Task 2:Policy Brief | ||||||||||||||||
| Goal: | The goal of this task is to critically analyse the role of restorative justice conferencing in addressing youth crime, and to present evidence and recommendations to a non-specialised audience. |
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| Product: | Written Piece | |||||||||||||||
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| Format: | This is an individual assignment. Your policy brief should be evidence-informed and presented succinctly as a tool to persuade the target audience of your key messages and recommendations. Students are required to complete the task using Cadmus. |
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| Generic Skills: | Communication, Problem solving, Information literacy |
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| All - Assessment Task 3:Case assessment and intervention plan | |||||||||||||
| Goal: | The goal of this task is to apply your knowledge, critical thinking and problem solving skills to a case example. |
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| Product: | Artefact - Professional | ||||||||||||
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| Format: | This is an individual assignment. It requires you to engage with a case study of a young person involved with the criminal justice system, and conduct a brief assessment that informs an intervention plan. The case study will be provided during the trimester. |
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| Generic Skills: | Communication, Problem solving, Organisation, Information literacy |
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A 12-unit course will have total of 150 learning hours which will include directed study hours (including online if required), self-directed learning and completion of assessable tasks. Student workload is calculated at 12.5 learning hours per one unit.
Please note: Course information, including specific information of recommended readings, learning activities, resources, weekly readings, etc. are available on the course Canvas site– Please log in as soon as possible.
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Academic integrity is the ethical standard of university participation. It ensures that students graduate as a result of proving they are competent in their discipline. This is integral in maintaining the value of academic qualifications. Each industry has expectations and standards of the skills and knowledge within that discipline and these are reflected in assessment.
Academic integrity means that you do not engage in any activity that is considered to be academic fraud; including plagiarism, collusion or outsourcing any part of any assessment item to any other person. You are expected to be honest and ethical by completing all work yourself and indicating in your work which ideas and information were developed by you and which were taken from others. You cannot provide your assessment work to others. You are also expected to provide evidence of wide and critical reading, usually by using appropriate academic references.
In order to minimise incidents of academic fraud, this course may require that some of its assessment tasks, when submitted to Canvas, are electronically checked through Turnitin. This software allows for text comparisons to be made between your submitted assessment item and all other work to which Turnitin has access.
Eligibility for Supplementary Assessment
Your eligibility for supplementary assessment in a course is dependent of the following conditions applying:
(a) The final mark is in the percentage range 47% to 49.4%; and
(b) The course is graded using the Standard Grading scale
Students are required to complete the task using Cadmus.
Late submissions may be penalised up to and including the following maximum percentage of the assessment task’s identified value, with weekdays and weekends included in the calculation of days late:
(a) One day: deduct 5%;
(b) Two days: deduct 10%;
(c) Three days: deduct 20%;
(d) Four days: deduct 40%;
(e) Five days: deduct 60%;
(f) Six days: deduct 80%;
(g) Seven days: A result of zero is awarded for the assessment task.
The following penalties will apply for a late submission for an online examination:
Less than 15 minutes: No penalty
From 15 minutes to 30 minutes: 20% penalty
More than 30 minutes: 100% penalty
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