I struggled with this unit. The content matter is interesting, but the lectures so dry and the readings so full of fluff it makes focusing on the content pretty damn difficult. I found the expectations for the essay were unclear and consequently didn't do as well as I would have expected. I found the exam easier, but like all Law School units constrained more by time than by difficulty. Tutor quality also varies WIDELY. I changed tutors for the final 3 weeks and it made life so much easier, and I would take a guess if I had been with the new tutor the whole time I would have found the unit easier and done better. Overall, I would not recommend this unit as an elective unless you have a strong interest in criminology. It is not my major nor a strong interest of mine so this unit was a net waste of my time and I wish I had swapped out of it at the start.

Joe was a great lecturer and evidently is passionate about this unit! The content was very interesting and relatively easy to keep on top with. The exam is good as you can bring in a sheet of notes but you may run out of time so write quick! The research essay is good and on very interesting topics. It is relatively easy to achieve a D or HD!

Very interesting content! Loved joe as a lecturer!!!! Exam was pretty good, you are allowed notes but work quickly because you will run out of time!!!! I thought it was related to content and pretty easy regardless though! Research assignment was good too just make sure you research well with good sources!

i found the exam was different to the questions i expected but the rest of the unit was fairly easy. interesting content though and liked Joe as a teacher

Exam was relatively difficult in comparision to the rest of the units assessments and the questions seemed to have a different focus to the units actual content however I still found this a highly enjoyable unit and it was interesting enough to make studying long hours more than bearable.

This unit was pretty interesting. The lecture’s content is pretty much in the slides so you don’t really have to take a lot of notes. It’s not the easiest unit to HD (mostly due to the research essay) as a science student who has no experience at all in this area of knowledge but it was manageable because there are only 2 lectures per week and you can bring your textbook with sticky notes in it during the final exam. The final exam was alright but you really need to work very fast because there’s a lot of writing to do for the second section and the essay.

really interesting unit with relevant content, although the tutorials arent compulsory, I would recommend attending as they added that extra bit of information in each topic that weren't covered in lectures.

Not sure how I felt about this unit. The exam was made up of multi choice, short answer and an essay - which were all fairly easy considering we were allowed to take the textbook in (as such, I would invest in a textbook if you can't be bothered memorising everything). Would recommend attending the non-compulsory tutes. The essay was quite challenging.

Easiest unit ever. Watched three lectures and still got an HD. But also taught so badly (which is why I didn't watch the lectures)

As a first year student with not a lot of prior knowledge about criminology, I found this unit to be really interesting and informative in regards to the Australian Legal System. Pretty easy to achieve high marks if you attend the tutorial and participate in class discussion, also helps if you attend the lecture each week as the mic is muted on important things plus the lecturer has a way of keeping you interested and engaged for the time that you are there. Very enjoyable unit overall.