CULT2017 Youth Justice and Practice

Assignment 2: Research poster

Team/Individual task: Individual

Word limit: 750 words (+/- 10%)

Weighting: 30%

Due date: 5pm AEST Monday 7 July 2025 (Week 8)

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Assignment Overview

To pass this subject of study, you must achieve an aggregated grade of at least 50%. Although this assignment is not a mandatory submission, completing this assignment will give you the best chance of achieving this minimum requirement.

The purpose of this assignment is to apply your knowledge of the correlates of offending and victimisation. You will summarise and evaluate the research on this critical topic area, before providing commentary on the youth justice system and the young people within it. Your assignment will focus on one correlate of offending and victimisation and the associated research—including practitioner interviews. You will present your evidence summary and commentary in the form of a research poster. 

This assignment supports Subject Learning Outcomes 1 and 4. 

Use of generative artificial intelligence

Use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools to brainstorm ideas, summarise reading material or to edit your submission is permitted. The content of your final submission must be your original work. Be aware that the output from generative AI tools may be incorrect, incomplete or biased.

Working with another person or technology in order to gain an unfair advantage in assessment or improperly obtaining answers from a third party including generative AI to questions in an examination or other form of assessment may lead to sanctions under the Student Misconduct Rule. Use of generative AI tools may be detected. More information is available on the Library web page.

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Assignment Details

Read through the following steps to understand and meet the requirements of this assignment:

Step 1: Complete all learning activities on the correlates of offending and victimisation.

Before you dive into this assignment, ensure you have an accurate and comprehensive understanding of the topic: The correlates of offending and victimisation. Review the essential readings, practitioner interviews, learning activities and your notes from Modules 5 and 6 to consolidate your understanding. 

In particular, ensure that you have: 

watched practitioner interviews as they relate to the topics of the victim/offender nexus, care and control and gender, ethnicity, health and education via the Youth Justice Portal

read the essential readings on pages 5.1 This module's focus and 6.1 This module's focus 

taken notes using the effective note-taking strategies you learned on page 1.3 Taking effective notes. 

Step 2: Choose your research focus

Based on your knowledge of the topic area, choose one correlate of offending and victimisation as your focus. For example, you may choose to focus on mental illness or out-of-home care and how it correlates to offending and victimisation. Naturally, there will be overlaps and intersections between the different correlates. This is fine, provided that you make it clear, in your research and writing, which correlate is your focus.

Step 3: Summarise and evaluate the evidence

For this component of the assignment, you are required to summarise and evaluate the evidence base presented in:

two essential readings on page 5.1 This module's focus and 6.1 This module's focus the practitioner interviews in the Youth Justice Portal. Your summary will consist of a written component and a series of graphs, charts and/or tables generated from your readings and viewing. These visuals must be your own—cutting and pasting existing tables or figures from the readings and/or other sources is not acceptable.

Note: your written summary and evaluation should be 750 words (+/- 10%), including in-text citations.

Step 4: Create your research poster

Now that you have prepared each required element, it is time to create your research poster. 

Your research poster should be presented in one Microsoft PowerPoint slide, with the following headings to structure the content: 

Introduction

Evidence base

Conclusions

References

You may add sub-headings that connect better with your claims, particularly in the evidence-base section. If you find it difficult to make your reference list ‘fit’ within your main slide, you may add a second slide purely for this reference list.

The following PowerPoint template may be of use, however, please note that using this slide design is optional: Assignment 2: Research poster template (PPTX 65 KB). 

Key Information

This assignment requires you to make use of two essential readings for Modules 5 and 6 as part of your research summary and evaluation. It is okay if you find that one reading offers more for your chosen correlate than the other. 

Your completed submission must include a written component of 750 words (+/-10%) along with graphs, charts or tables created by you, as from data presented in the essential readings. Page 6.4 Activity 1: Creating a visually appealing research poster contains resources to support you with these design elements. 

Note: The main text, including in-text citations, will count towards the word count. Headings, sub-headings and the reference list are not included in the word count.

Assignment Tip

View the marking guide under 'Assignment criteria' to see a detailed breakdown of how your work will be assessed. This is an excellent place to start your preparations for this assignment.

Refer back to the marking guide frequently to make sure you are meeting the requirements.

Supporting Documents 

Exemplars

The following exemplars have been provided to support you in completing this assignment:

Sample research poster: Mindfulness and emotional literacy training for homeless youth (PDF 767 KB).

Sample research poster 2: A review of seclusion rooms in Canadian Youth Mental Health and Forensic Psychiatric

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Facilities

Note that the purpose of providing these exemplars is to offer you a clear visual representation of what your final research poster should look like—i.e. a blend of text, images, graphs, charts and tables. 

To maintain your academic integrity, you are not permitted to copy/reproduce this exemplar in whole or in part. A high Turnitin similarity report would lead to a breach of academic misconduct.