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Criminal Bodies - CUL326
This unit consists of a genealogical study of the ways on which bodies and selves have been constituted as dangerous and/or criminal. It considers Foucault's account of the transition in penal punishment in the early nineteenth century: from a focus on offense and penalty to an increasing focus on the figure of the criminal as a 'dangerous individual' whose nature must be discerned and who effects must be contained. We thus turn to the technologies of criminal identification developed by Cesare Lombroso, Alphonse Bertillon, Francis Galton and others. We then consider the ways in which the ideas and practices associated with nineteenth-century criminology continue to resonate in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In order to do so we examine technologies such as fingerprinting, polygraphs, DNA testing, and so on, and consider how these practices and the assumptions that inform them operate in the context of popular culture.
| Credit Points: | 3 |
| When Offered: | D2 - Day; Offered in Session 2, North Ryde |
| Staff Contact(s): | Associate Professor Nikki Sullivan |
| Prerequisites: |
39cp including 3cp in CUL units at 200 level |
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| NCCW(s): | CUL314 |
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| Assessed As: | Graded |
| Offered By: | Department of Media, Music, Communication and Cultural Studies Faculty of Arts |
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