This unit focuses on drugs, crime and the legal, social and cultural forces shaping licit and illicit drug use in our society. Drawing on scholarship in criminology, sociology and gender studies, this unit engages students in current critical debates on: local and international drug markets; law enforcement, prohibition and harm minimisation; drugs in prisons; alcohol regulation and drug courts and therapeutic jurisprudence. In the process it examines concepts of addiction, treatment and drug using subjectivity and agency. A range of analytic approaches to contemporary social and law enforcement issues around drugs will be introduced, and students will undertake problem-based learning... -- Course Website
Instructor: Suzanne Fraser
Prerequisites: First year Sequence in Arts.