Interrogating Crime: An Introduction to Criminology

Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Describe and examine key concepts and theoretical approaches in criminology, evaluate their application and use them to analyse crime, victimisation and responses to crime and deviance
• Understand and critically evaluate competing definitions of crime, and criteria for measuring crime
• Provide an analytical account of social inequality (class, gender, sexuality, age, race and ethnicity, disability and global), the role of power in shaping it and the consequences for crime, victimisation and criminal justice
• Outline the development of the field of criminology beyond the established global north histories
• Critically assess the role of media in understanding our perceptions of crime
• Identify, select and draw upon a range of sources to support the development of an argument
• Communicate ideas and arguments in a variety of written formats

1.What is crime, what we think we know about it,

and how we think we know it?

2.How do we measure crime: Recorded crime and official statistics

3. Crime at the Intersection: Class, Race, Gender, Sexuality and Power

W.E.B. Du Bois and the Foundations of Sociological Criminology

Crime, Class and Ethnicity

Ethnicity and Gender

Masculinities and Crime

4.Early Theories of crime and deviance and their reflection on the ideas in Section 3:

The Chicago School

Strain, Anomie, and Social Control

Differential Association

Bio-Psych Theories

19 Contact Hours Comprising:

14 Lectures

5 Tutorials

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.