JSB171: Justice and Society- Australian Indigenous People- Report Writing Assignment

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Report Writing Assignment:

Task:

You are required to choose one of the groups explored in Module 2 (those experiencing poverty, women, Indigenous Australians, sexual minorities, young people) and compile a brief report offering:
1. a broad snapshot of the key forms of disadvantage and injustice/inequality that this group experiences in Australian society (including use of socio-economic, education, health and/or criminal justice statistics)
2. a discussion on how this information illustrates disadvantage and inequality for this group, using the unit concepts discussed in Module 1 (such as life chances, structural inequality, lottery of birth), which we use when we talk about inequality and disadvantage.

The following detailed instructions will help you complete this task.

Step 1. Choose a group from Module 2. You might wish to narrow this down a little. For example, if you choose poverty, you might like to just discuss the homeless, or if you choose sexuality, you might like to just discuss gay men. This will help provide some focus for your report and may make it clearer – just don’t narrow this down so much that you make it hard for yourself. Your tutor will be able to help with this.

Step 2. Decide which statistics illustrate disadvantage for that group. Your report must contain information from two of the following contexts:
• Socio-economic statistics (e.g. income/wealth/employment)
• Education statistics
• Health statistics
• Criminal justice statistics
Think about what key pieces of information to gather – what information would best illustrate disadvantage and inequality for the group you have chosen? While this might change as you look through the information that you gather, it is important that you have an idea so that you can easily navigate the information. If you are stuck here, think back to the lectures, tutorials, and your textbook to help you. We discuss some of these factors in the textbook and in class, so use this as your starting point. Just make sure you do not simply copy the material in the textbook or lecture slides – use these as a prompt for your own thinking.

Step 3. Decide which unit concepts to include i.e. which unit concepts (such as life chances, structural inequality, lottery of birth, white race privilege, male privilege, othering, cultural capital) are relevant toyour discussion of inequality and disadvantage for your group? Thinking about this will help you choose which information to gather as well. If you are stuck, revisit the textbook reading and class discussions for that week. Keep in mind that the unit concepts may be general ones that impact all groups discussed in Module 2 (such as structural inequality), as well as those that are relevant to a specific group discussed (such as white race privilege).

Step 4. Find relevant statistics by consulting appropriate and authoritative sources. These sources can include the Australian Institute of Criminology, the Australian Bureau of Statistics, the Human Rights Commission, Amnesty International and so on. This information could also come from a research report commissioned on a specific issue, or, of course, academic research. There are some links and reports on the Blackboard site, which can help you here.

Step 5.Write your Report. You need to a) discuss the information that you have found (you can also use some pertinent diagrams to illustrate this data), and b) briefly ‘unpack’ that information. That is, you need to provide some explanation for how this information demonstrates inequality/disadvantage (i.e. why you chose to discuss it), and how it relates to the unit concepts (e.g. what impact those particular statistics might have on life chances, or how they illustrate structural inequality).

Remember, while you will be spending some time describing the information/statistics that you find, make sure that you offer relevant analysis as well. You will be doing this largely through your discussion of the unit concepts and why the information that you have provided is relevant for understanding disadvantage and inequality.

Note: Your report will be marked on the basis of the information/statistics you select and discuss, and how well you use them and the unit concepts to paint a picture of disadvantage and inequality for your chosen group. Those students that tie this information together in a sophisticated way will receive a higher mark than those that offer only description. In addition, those students that can demonstrate a deep engagement with the unit material and originality of thought through the information that they select to discuss will gain a higher mark than those that focus only on information discussed in class. Please consult the criteria sheet for more detailed guidance.

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