Crime, Victims and Justice

Details of the task: Write an essay addressing one of the following four questions. 1. Restorative justice is a useful addition to the criminal justice system that can help to address the diverse needs and experiences of victims of family violence. Critically discuss. 2. The severity and extent of family violence is increasingly being recognised within government and legal discourse. Critically discuss this statement with reference to both the impacts of family violence for victims, and the range of initiatives that have been implemented to address some of these effects. 3. While there are victims of crime from all population groups, there are some victims that are especially vulnerable to crime and its impacts. Critically discuss the key challenges that young people may experience as victims within and beyond the criminal justice system. 4. The police are granted a number of powers to maintain order in society, while also being given significant levels of discretion to make judgments based on the individual circumstances of their encounters with members of the public. Critically discuss how the exercise of these powers can result in victims of state power, drawing on concerns around police discretion and the use of force. Research Essay Requirements: Read the ‘ten step essay guide’ available on CloudDeakin. This guide will provide you with advice about researching and writing your essay. Please read these instructions carefully when preparing your response. Tutors will not read essay drafts, however they can provide verbal feedback on your plan during the week 11 seminars. As the assignment due date is only two days after the lecture, Mary and Clare will attend the week 11 lectures in Burwood and WP to provide individualised support for students. This will be in the form of a Q&A session, which will be recorded for online students. Students should bring any specific questions or aspects of the assignment about which guidance is sought. Tutors will attend all scheduled on-campus and online seminars during week 11 to enable personalised support/feedback for students who wish to attend/participate. Reference Requirements: You must use the Harvard referencing system. Please refer to and follow the Deakin Referencing Guide to ensure that you format and arrange your citations and reference list correctly. If you have any specific questions about how to cite and/or format your references, please direct them to the Language and Learning team (include link?) You are required to apply a minimum of twelve reputable sources. You must include a reference list for the sources that you have cited. The reference list is not included in the word count. Turn-it-in: Before submitting your work via the assignment dropbox, you are able to undertake a plagiarism self-check. This can be done via the practice Turn-it-in assignment folder in the UniStart CloudDeakin site. Go to Assessment > Assignments > Checking your work with Turn-it-in. Submission: The assignment must be submitted in Word or PDF format online through the ‘Research Essay’ drop-box on the CloudDeakin site for ACR203 (select ‘Assessments’ from the menu bar, then ‘Assignments’ from the drop-down list, and you will see the drop-boxes for this unit).  Please do not submit Pages or Txt documents.  Submissions in hard copy or via email will not be accepted.  No cover sheet is required. Please access your Deakin email regularly, as this will be used to communicate any issues with your submission. Late penalties will apply unless a formal extension has been granted by the Unit Chair. The Rights and Responsibilities guide details the policy relating to late penalties. Please note: in accordance with recently updated Deakin University policy, and your Rights and Responsibilities guide, assignments submitted more than five days late will not be marked, unless an extension has been granted or ‘Special Consideration’ applies. Assessments submitted less than five days late but with no extension will not receive in-text comments and will only receive feedback on the rubric, brief commentary and a grade. Questions? Please refer to the CloudDeakin Discussion Forum if you have any questions. Before posting, read any previous threads to ensure that your question has not already been answered.