Essay
Value: 50%
Length: 2000 words
The essay is the major piece of work for the semester and marks the culmination of the one of the given questions and be sure to answer all aspects referred to in the question. consult your tutor for further guidance.
Things to keep in mind:
Reflect on your feedback from the Annotated Poster. This first task is intended to help you better respond to your chosen question. Before you begin your essay, please take time to remind yourself of the strengths and weaknesses of your poster and incorporate this feedback accordingly. ( I HAVE ATTACHED MY POSTER)
(FEEDBACK I RECEIVED
Hi Anthony,
This is a great start for thinking through your essay question!
This assignment could have been improved by focusing on the following areas:
– Indigenous with a capital letter
– You must have a minimum of four academic resources; two academic from Leganto.
– Work on the multimodality in the poster to try to convey your ideas clearly. For example, the graph is a little difficult to read.
– Reflect on your poster’s visual/multimodal meaning, what data/empirical support you will draw on for the poster, crime/case studies/examples, and your key points.
– Find data/statistics to support your claims empirically.
– What examples will you be analysing in the essay?
– Perhaps frame your essay within the broader context of neoliberalism?
– What theory /theories will you draw on for theoretical support in the essay?
– Proofread your final draft to check for typos and grammatical errors. Read aloud to yourself or ask a friend/peer to read through the final draft.
– Italicize the book title.
– Italicize the journal title.
Perhaps include the Week 1 reading by Cunneen? (Have attached this reading in the attachments)
END OF FEEDBACK
Take the time to plan properly. A 2000-word essay is a substantial piece of writing but, once you break it up into components pieces, it is less space than you might think. Paragraphs should generally be around 200-300 words, and you may wish to use subheadings to structure your essay.
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Engage in course material. Unless you have evidenced sustained and detail engagement with the core topics that we have covered over the course of unit, then you will not be able to pass the unit. Independent research is important, but the foundation to demonstrating an understanding and meeting the assessment criteria is engaging in the range of themes and debates we have covered within PICT1030. All the resources included on Leganto as well as the reference list in each lecture have been compiled to aid your learning. (Have attached some the main texbook which i really need you to refrence is Title: Crime, criminality and criminal justice
Book Author: White, R. D.
ISBN: 019031009X; 9780190310097
Edition: Third edition.; Third edition. its the last one in the bilbiography on my poster PLEASE USE THIS)
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Back up your claims with research. This means not only making a claim but also supporting that claim with evidence (i.e. references to scholarly sources). Good essays are well-supported by research. Aim to include 2-3 references in each paragraph in the body of your essay and are structured around PEELE (Point / Explain / Evaluate / Link).
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Start writing early. A 2000-word essay takes time to put together and you may find that your approach changes as you conduct your research.
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Use appropriate sources, particularly peer-reviewed journal articles and books. You may use other sources to provide supporting information (e.g. the ABS or BOCSAR sites for crime statistics). Include at least 8 references in your research essay.
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Do not use non-scholarly sources, e.g. random websites, Wikipedia, etc. Also remember that this is a research essay – we want to see how well you can find your own information. This means we want to see referencing beyond the resources that we have given to you (i.e. your course textbook and required readings).
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Reference properly. The required referencing style is APA – the same as for the annotated poster. The main thing is to be consistent, but remember that material that is not referenced properly may breach your responsibilities regarding academic honesty. More details about how to reference properly can be found on the iLearn page. The library also runs courses on referencing if you would like more detailed advice.
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Discuss your essay plan and any potential problematic issues with your tutor. They can provide you with specific advice about your chosen topic and advise you on the best approaches to take.
Essay Questions
1. What are the limitations of ‘crime’ as a concept and what possibilities might an analysis of ‘social harm’ offer as an alternative?
2. Lawyer and activist, Noel Pearson, has described Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the most incarcerated population on Earth. What does this say about the nature of Australia’s criminal justice system?
3. What is the ‘ideal victim’ and, focusing on both those included and excluded, how does it shape our understanding crime in the media?
4. Nurse (2017) states that, “A central discussion within green criminology is that of whether environmental harm rather than environmental crime should be its focus”. What are the arguments on each side, and which do you think is more productive going forward and why?
5. Criminology has been described as a ‘rendezvous discipline’ (see Young, 2003). What does this mean and how does it shape, positively and negatively, the discipline’s focus?
6. What benefits would there be for classifying drug abuse as a ‘health problem’ rather than a ‘crime problem’? Can other contemporary issues be ameliorated by such an approach?
7. An overwhelming majority of women in prison today have experienced some form of past abuse (see Hatty, 1997; Dobash & Dobash, 2004). What does this say about the role of prisons and punishment, specifically for women, in society today?
8. What is ‘intersectionality’ and why does it matter in criminological research?
9. Why has criminology as a discipline largely overlooked crimes of the powerful?
