ACR706 - Environmental Crime and Regulation
Unit details
| Year | 2025 unit information |
|---|---|
| Enrolment modes: | Trimester 1: Online |
| Credit point(s): | 1 |
| EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
| Unit Chair: | Trimester 1: Reece Walters |
| Prerequisite: | Nil |
| Corequisite: | Nil |
| Incompatible with: | Nil |
| Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - online unit enrolment: | |
| Typical study commitment: | Students will on average spend 150-hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit. This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site. |
Content
This unit will critically examine environmental crime through a green criminological lens. It asks ‘What do criminologists do to decrease the chances of the extinction of mankind and the destruction of the planet?’ These ‘big picture issues’ have been grasped by green criminologists seeking to examine threats to humanity and non-human species by the unnecessary exploitation of the environment by powerful elites. This unit will examine a range of harmful acts that damage and destroy the environment that are legitimated through government policies and legislation. It will unpack notions of environmental harm; and examine why some acts are regulated and prohibited by governments, and others not. It will critique the ways in which human-induced environmental damage are constructed and represented in law, as well as public and political discourse. Finally, it will explain environmental crime through existing green criminological theories whilst advancing notions of environmental, ecological and species justice
Learning Outcomes
| ULO | These are the Unit Learning Outcomes (ULOs) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can: | Alignment to Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes (GLOs) |
|---|---|---|
| ULO1 | Critically evaluate the origins and extent of current human-related environmental harm in order to identify the social, political and criminological explanations that have been advanced for those harms | GLO1: Discipline specific knowledge and capabilities GLO4: Critical thinking |
| ULO2 | Identify the more specific environment harms of concern nationally and internationally and critically evaluate their utility using green criminological perspectives | GLO1: Discipline specific knowledge and capabilities GLO4: Critical thinking GLO8: Global citizenship |
| ULO3 | Identify transnational environmental crimes defined and regulated by international legal instruments and critically evaluate the potential of these to inform practice | GLO1: Discipline specific knowledge and capabilities GLO4: Critical thinking |
| ULO4 | Articulate and critically appraise the relevant theories and perspectives that have developed within green criminology to explain and generate solutions to environmental crime | GLO1: Discipline specific knowledge and capabilities GLO5: Problem solving |
These Unit Learning Outcomes are applicable for all teaching periods throughout the year.
Assessment
| Assessment Description | Student output | Grading and weighting (% total mark for unit) | Indicative due week |
|---|---|---|---|
| Assessment 1: Research Proposal | 2000 words or equivalent | 40% | Week 5 |
| Assessment 2: Essay | 3000 words or equivalent | 60% | Week 11 |
The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.
Learning resource
The texts and reading list for ACR706 can be found via the University Library.
Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list. Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.
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