VICTIMS AND SURVIVORS: WORKING WITH VULNERABILITY AND TRAUMA

LST4VST

2020

Credit points: 30

Subject outline

The field of criminal justice often involves working with survivors of violence and other vulnerable people. These may be victims of a wide range of violent crimes including sexual assault and family violence, and also offenders whose situations are linked to their own histories of victimization and abuse. This work requires insights and skills to ensure that individuals are effectively supported, and protected from secondary victimization. This subject offers an opportunity to develop these skills through understanding the complex and destructive reactions people have to traumatic experiences, the vulnerabilities they continue to carry, and the support that is effective in working towards recovery, rehabilitation and justice. This is provided through an integration of social approaches to vulnerability and victimisation with critical psychological theories of trauma and key theorists on vicarious trauma.

School: Humanities and Social Sciences (Pre 2022)

Credit points: 30

Subject Co-ordinator: Anthony Collins

Available to Study Abroad/Exchange Students: Yes

Subject year level: Year Level 4 - UG/Hons/1st Yr PG

Exchange Students: No

Available as Elective: No

Learning Activities: N/A

Capstone subject: No

Subject particulars

Subject rules

Prerequisites: Admission to Criminology Honours LHCR or by approval of subject coordinator

Co-requisites: N/A

Incompatible subjects: N/A

Equivalent subjects: N/A

Quota Management Strategy: N/A

Quota-conditions or rules: N/A

Special conditions: N/A

Minimum credit point requirement: N/A

Assumed knowledge: N/A

Learning resources

Trauma and Recovery: from domestic violence to political terror

Resource Type: Book

Resource Requirement: Prescribed

Author: Judith Herman

Year: 1997

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Publisher: Basic Books

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Career Ready

Career-focused: No

Work-based learning: No

Self sourced or Uni sourced: N/A

Entire subject or partial subject: N/A

Total hours/days required: N/A

Location of WBL activity (region): N/A

WBL addtional requirements: N/A

Graduate capabilities & intended learning outcomes

Graduate Capabilities

COMMUNICATION - Communicating and Influencing

DISCIPLINE KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

INQUIRY AND ANALYSIS - Creativity and Innovation

INQUIRY AND ANALYSIS - Critical Thinking and Problem Solving

INQUIRY AND ANALYSIS - Research and Evidence-Based Inquiry

PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL - Ethical and Social Responsibility

Intended Learning Outcomes

01. Demonstrate a critical understanding of kinds of victimization and how these relate to forms of social inequality, with an emphasis on current critical social theories of trauma.

02. Demonstrate an understanding of key theoretical frameworks for conceptualising psychological trauma and how it impacts identity, social interactions and decisions, with particular attention to the vulnerabilities it creates and the kinds of support that it makes necessary.

03. Apply theory and knowledge to specific cases of survivor support, with particular attention to ethical issues and problems of secondary victimization.

04. Demonstrate ability to critically examine and analyse key intellectual debates in this field, and to communicate that analysis clearly and effectively in oral and written form.

Melbourne (Bundoora), 2020, Semester 2, Day

Overview

Online enrolment: Yes

Maximum enrolment size: N/A

Enrolment information: N/A

Subject Instance Co-ordinator: Anthony Collins

Class requirements

SeminarWeek: 31 - 43
One 3.00 hours seminar per week on weekdays during the day from week 31 to week 43 and delivered via face-to-face.

Assessments

Assessment element	Comments	Category	Contribution	Hurdle	%	ILO*
Completion of in class activities (equivalent 500 words)	N/A	N/A	N/A	No	5	SILO1, SILO2, SILO3, SILO4
Class presentation (2000 word equivalent)	N/A	N/A	N/A	No	25	SILO1, SILO2, SILO3, SILO4
Case study (1500 words)	N/A	N/A	N/A	No	20	SILO1, SILO2, SILO3, SILO4
Research essay (4000 words)	N/A	N/A	N/A	No	50	SILO1, SILO2, SILO3, SILO4