17 Jun DESCRIBE THE CURRENT LEVEL OF INDIGENOUS YOUTH CONTACT WITH THE JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEM
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The unit will be delivered as follows:
9 x 1 hour facetoface lectures (weeks 1 to 10)
3 x 1 hour online prerecorded lectures (weeks 11 to 13)
11 x 1 hour facetoface tutorials (weeks 2 to 13)
The unit will also include a series of online activities. However these are not compulsory
and nonassessable items.
Please refer to the Weekly Reading and Tutorial Program available on vUWS for a
week by week breakdown of readings online activities and tutorial questions for this
unit.
Attendance
Students are expected to attend all facetoface lectures and tutorials and to participate
actively in all class activities including online activities. Failure to do so may seriously
undermine a students ability to complete the unit satisfactorily. Attendance records
may be consulted in the assessment of any requests for extensions or Special
Consideration. You should advise the Unit Coordinator or your tutor if you are unable to
attend a tutorial due to illness or misadventure.
This unit is worth 10 credit points indicating that success in the unit requires at least 10
hours work per week. Two hours will be lecture/tutorial time one hour will be online
activities and the remaining 7 hours should be devoted to reading and study
assessment preparation and revision. In this unit you will need to devote much of this
time to reading the set reading materials.
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Textbook
Textbook
There is no set textbook for this unit. A detailed reading list will be made available on
vUWS.
Readings
Set readings for each week of the learning program are listed in the table entitled Unit
Weekly Schedule and in the Weekly Reading and Tutorial Program. The set readings are
in electronic form and available from the units homepage on vUWS. The additional
readings listed in the Weekly Tutorial Program can be located by searching for
them in the library catalogue. If you have any difficulties locating the additional readings
please seek assistance from the library staff.
Other Resources
Key weblinks:
Weblinks to resources related to the assessment tasks and to your broader learning
objectives are available from the units homepage on vUWS.
Referencing
The referencing requirement for units in Social Science is the Harvard style. Full details
on the Harvard style of referencing can be found at:
http://library.uws.edu.au/FILES/cite_Harvard.pdf
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SECTION TWO: Assessment Information
Course Outcomes Click on this link to see the courselevel learning outcomes (or graduate attributes)
you need to have attained when you graduate: http://tinyurl.com/ssapclo
Unit Outcomes
On completion of this unit students will be able to:
1. Summarise the relevant multidisciplinary literature relating to juvenile
crime patterns of offending and the impacts of societal responses to
young people;
2. Assess social and political forces that have shaped governmental responses
to juvenile crime worldwide;
3. Analyse discourses and practices used to control and prevent juvenile crime
in Australia;
4. Evaluate criminal justice interventions for working with young people
committing crimes in Australia.
5. Write effectively using writing styles commonly used in criminal justice
settings.
Unit to Course This unit and its unit outcomes relate to the learning outcomes of the course as
shown in the relevant Table of the Course Outcomes link above.
Assessment Assessment Overview:
Assessment Worth Length Outcomes Threshold
1 Essay 40% 1500 words 2 3 4 Yes
2 Professional Task
(Briefing Paper)
30% 1000 words 1 2 5 Yes
3 Poster with explanation 30% 500 words 2 3 Yes
**All the assessment items in this unit are compulsory and must be submitted
before you are eligible to pass the unit regardless of how many marks you
accumulate. In addition to pass this unit you must obtain a minimum overall
mark of 50% aggregated across all weighted assessments.
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ASSESSMENT ONE
A1 Assessment Essay (1500 words +/ 10%) Worth: 40%
A1 Due Before 11:59pm on Monday 28 March 2016
A1 Submission
Online submission only. Students must submit using Turnitin on vUWS. Hardcopies will NOT be
accepted. Emailed assessments will NOT be accepted. You will be able to locate the submission link
on vUWS by navigating to the Assessments tab then clicking on the Assessment 1: Essay folder on
vUWS.
By submitting your assignment to Turnitin you will be certifying that:
You hold a copy of this assignment if the original is lost or damaged;
No part of this assignment has been copied from any other students work or from any other
source except where due acknowledgement is made in the assignment;
No part of the assignment has been written for you by any other person/s;
You have complied with the specified word length for this assignment;
You are aware that this work may be reproduced and submitted to plagiarism detection
software programs for the purpose of detecting possible plagiarism (which may retain a copy
on its database for future plagiarism checking).
Further Information on using Turnitin for submissions are available online at:
http://library.uws.edu.au/turnitin.php.
Is this assessment compulsory?
Yes. All weighted assessments in the unit must be attempted regardless of overall accumulated marks.
What if I fail to submit by the due date and time?
If the assessment is submitted (without an approved extension) after the due date and time it
will attract a late penalty of 10% of what the assessment is worth per day (including
weekends) up to a maximum of 10 days at which time the penalty will be 100% of what the
assessment is worth.
Assessments will not be accepted after the marked assessment task has been returned to
students who submitted the task on time.
Should illness or misadventure prevent you from completing the Annotated Bibliography
please see section on Extension Special Consideration and late penalties in the attached
SSAPGuide.
What if I encounter technical problems when trying to submit online?
Please contact UWS IT Services on (02) 9852 5111 or email: itservicedesk@westernsydney.edu.au as
soon as the difficulty arises and well before the due date and time. Then while you wait for IT to
resolve your issue please email a copy of your assessment before the due date and time to the unit
coordinator as evidence of timely submission. As soon as the issue has been resolve submit your
assignment through Turnitin for marking. Having a UWS IT Incident Ticket will serve as evidence of
your attempt to submit.
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Describe ONE incident of youth crime reported in the mass media over the last 10 years where the
offender(s) have been members of an ethnic minority group and discuss the effects of cultural
reductionism in the medias representation of your chosen incident.
Question 3:
Describe the current level of Indigenous youth contact with the juvenile justice system and discuss
this with reference to white Australias colonisation of Aboriginal Australia.
Two required readings for each of these essay topics can be located in the Assessments tab on the
units vUWS site. You are to use the two required readings plus three other scholarly sources of your
own choosing to inform your essay. In total you must use a minimum of five scholarly sources for this
assessment.
Your written response to the essay question will be submitted in essay format using the 1500 (+/
10% leniency) word limit. It would be appropriate to use headings to signal the way you will direct
your discussion however you must use a formal writing style with correct referencing using the
Harvard system. In the essay you should:
Use a minimum of five scholarly sources (e.g. Journal articles book chapters and respected
government websites).
You must acknowledge the ideas of others reference direct quotes properly using the Harvard
referencing system and include a reference list at the end (not included in the word count).
Viewpoints need to be substantiated using relevant literature empirical evidence and
convincing argumentation.
The task must be wordprocessed doubled spaced and use 12pt font.
You must also retain an electronic or hard copy of your submission as dictated by University
Assessment Policy
The following sections should be included in your essay:
Introduction: Orients the reader to the topic previewing the stages of the essay and clarifying the
writers position.
Body paragraphs: The body consists of a logically sequenced series of paragraphs that develops the
essay topic. Each paragraph should express one key idea that relates to your analysis. Begin the
paragraph by introducing this key idea and then explain and elaborate on the idea using relevant
literature and research. Try to use sentences that connect each paragraph to one another by linking
ideas and lines of argument.
Conclusion: Restates the major argument developed in the essay. Briefly summarise major points and
implications.
A1 Description
Select only ONE essay topic from the options detailed below:
Question 1:
Throughout all Australian legal systems the minimum age of criminal responsibility is set at 10 years
of age. Describe how this age limit compares on a global scale and discuss the appropriateness of this
age limit in light of existing research.
Questions 2:
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A1 CRITERIA
A1 Criteria
Marking Criteria and Standards:
For a detailed outline of grading standards please refer to Assessment 1: Marking Criteria
and Standards available on vUWS in the Unit Information tab.
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ASSESSMENT TWO
A2 Assessment Professional Task (Briefing Paper) (1000 words +/ 10%) Worth: 30%
A2 Due Before 11:59pm on Monday 02 May 2016
A2 Submission Online submission only. Students must submit using Turnitin on vUWS. Hardcopies will NOT be
accepted. Emailed assessments will NOT be accepted. You will be able to locate the submission link
on vUWS by navigating to the Assessments tab then clicking on the Assessment 2: Professional
Task (Briefing Paper) folder on vUWS.
By submitting your assignment to Turnitin you will be certifying that:
You hold a copy of this assignment if the original is lost or damaged;
No part of this assignment has been copied from any other students work or from any other
source except where due acknowledgement is made in the assignment;
No part of the assignment has been written for you by any other person/s;
You have complied with the specified word length for this assignment;
You are aware that this work may be reproduced and submitted to plagiarism detection
software programs for the purpose of detecting possible plagiarism (which may retain a copy
on its database for future plagiarism checking).
Further Information on using Turnitin for submissions are available online at:
http://library.uws.edu.au/turnitin.php.
Is this assessment compulsory?
Yes. All weighted assessments in the unit must be attempted regardless of overall accumulated marks.
What if I fail to submit by the due date and time?
If the assessment is submitted (without an approved extension) after the due date and time it
will attract a late penalty of 10% of what the assessment is worth per day (including
weekends) up to a maximum of 10 days at which time the penalty will be 100% of what the
assessment is worth.
Assessments will not be accepted after the marked assessment task has been returned to
students who submitted the task on time.
Should illness or misadventure prevent you from completing the Annotated Bibliography
please see section on Extension Special Consideration and late penalties in the attached
SSAPGuide.
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