Criminological Perspectives in Global and Post-colonial Contexts

Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• 1.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
• 3. Outline the development of the field of Criminology
• 6.Critically assess criminological theory since 1980 to the present by interrogating the theoretical assumptions via the contemporary lens of debates in gender, race and power.
• 5.Assess the importance of history in understanding contemporary criminological issues
• 4.Provide an analytical account of social inequalities (class, gender, sexuality, age, race and ethnicity, disability and global), the role of power in shaping them and the consequences for crime, victimisation and criminal justice
• 2.Build on Foundation Year curriculum to critically engage with Post-1980’s criminological theory in a global and post-colonial context.

History of politics in criminology

Recap of early sociological theories of crime and deviance

The Left and criminology

The Right and criminology: Crime as a choice

Left and Right Realism

Contemporary Issues I: Gender and Crime

Contemporary Issues II: Harms (Zemiology) Versus Crimes (Criminology)

Contemporary issues III: Green criminology

Contemporary issues IV: Criminalising cyberspace

Contemporary Issues V Cultural criminology

Contemporary issues VI: Applying Cultural Criminology: The Power of the Image within Extremist Propaganda

Contemporary Issues VII: What’s the problem with (white) men? ‘Toxic masculinity’, white nationalism and crime

Crime versus Harm: Should criminology consider harms as crime? Constructing Ideal Masculinity in the Manosphere and Far Right Cultures Online

Deconstructing the mainstream discourse on crime

Lectures and tutorials with blended learning sessions

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.