Criminology and Security Modules

Aims
To develop an understanding of patterns and trends in the historical and contemporary contexts of research exploring high risk and serious crime.
To develop an understanding of how theoretical perspectives can assist in understanding high risk and serious offenders.
To examine the role of the media in creating images of high-risk offenders.
To develop an understanding of criminal justice responses to assessing and managing the risk posed by high-risk offenders.

Learning Outcomes
(LO1) Critically discuss the role of the media in shaping public perception of high risk and serious offenders, and how this might impact on their experience of the criminal justice system.
(LO2) Examine the theoretical underpinnings associated with why offenders commit serious crimes, and why they might be considered high risk.
(LO3) Evaluate the risk assessment and management processes undertaken by key criminal justice agencies in relation to dealing with high-risk offenders.
(LO4) Critically discuss the ways in which serious offenders experience prison.
(LO5) Evaluate strategies that may be used to rehabilitate individuals who have committed serious crimes.
(S1) Critically engage the literature and research base surrounding the activity of and responses to high risk and serious offenders.
(S2) Apply theories from different disciplines in explanations of why high risk and serious offenders come to exist.
(S3) Challenge extant research findings using knowledge of research methods and issues surrounding research with serious offenders.
(S4) Evaluate real-world case studies using theories and approaches covered throughout the module.

Aims
1. Understand conventional IR theories and how they apply to international security.
2. Understand critical security theories and perspectives and understand how they critique conventional theories.
3.Analyse a broad array of security issues, including those which extend beyond war and other violent situations.
4. Apply the theories learned to the Southeast Asian context.
5. Understand the role of the state, supranational organizations, and transnational organizations in the greater security complex.

Learning Outcomes
(LO1) Demonstrate an understanding of security studies
(LO2) Apply security theory to practical examples
(LO3) Understand the role of states and other organizations in the global security complex
(LO4) Identify security concerns in Southeast Asia
(S1) Problem solving skills
(S2) International awareness
(S3) Organisational skills
(S4) Problem solving/ critical thinking/ creativity analysing facts and situations and applying creative thinking to develop appropriate solutions.

Aims

• To raise issues concerning the gendered nature of work on deviance

• To consider arguments concerning the women's relation to deviance

• To explore the link between masculinities and crime

• To study the experiences of female offenders

• To explore the experiences of women as victims

Learning Outcomes
After completing the module the student should understand:

• the gendered nature of work on deviance

• feminist contributions to the study of criminology

• the nature of female offending

• key debates regarding the treatment of women within the criminal justice system

• women's victimisation

Aims

• To understand the main theoretical arguments and debates around social control and surveillance practices

• To examine the relationship between the political administration of cities and the development of surveillance practices and social control

• To critically assess the relationship between the prevention of crime, social control and how these impact upon populations defined by class, gender, 'race' and age

• To explore social control practices as social ordering practices

Learning Outcomes
By the end of the module students should be able to:

• Grasp the main theoretical debates around social control in the urban context

• Understand the relationship between city development and the problem of social order

• Appreciate the contested nature of both social order and the meaning of 'public space'

• Critically assess the relationship between crime prevention practices, social control and the constitution of social order in the city.

Aims

• Understand how the intensification of globalisation is relevant to criminology.
• Analyse how criminals have capitalised on new opportunities in the global era.
• transnational approaches to policing and criminal justice.
• Understand how perceptions of crime and criminals are related to mass migration and other flows of movement in an increasingly interconnected environment.
• Explore the current solutions and future predictions proposed by criminologists concerning transnational crime.

Learning Outcomes

• Gain an understanding of why globalisation is a useful framework for critical criminological scholarship.
• Gain the ability to discuss multiple examples of transnational crime and highlight sociological/criminological perspectives on them.
• Gain the ability to deconstruct popular discourses on borders, migration and the movement of objects and ideas in relation to security.
• Gain an understanding of the relevance of broader socio-economic contexts and political instabilities in facilitating transnational crime.
• Be able to critically evaluate a range of criminal justice responses to transnational crime.

Aims
• To critically explore the socio-legal perspectives on criminal law and criminal courts. • To investigate the historical political conditions under which different criminal procedure traditions have emerged. • To investigate the nature and intention of legal technical language used in courts proceedings. •To critically assess the rationality underpinning legal instruments such as plea bargaining or diversion used currently in courts to dispose of cases. • To explore the relationship between different court players’ perspectives and the implicit and explicit societal functions of courts. • To critically assess the geopolitical power dynamics that shape criminal courts’ reforms. • To explore the relationship between criminal courts and law enforcement state agencies.

Learning Outcomes
(LO1) Demonstrate a critical awareness of the historical and contemporary conditions that shape the dynamics of criminal courts.
(LO2) Apply a range of socio-legal research methods to critically study criminal law and courts in context.
(LO3) Exhibit a critical understanding of the rationality that underpins the main legal mechanisms used to dispose of criminal cases in courts.
(LO4) Critically analyse the different ways in which criminal courts interact with multiple state agencies.
(S1) Problem-solving/ critical thinking/ creativity analysing facts and situations and applying creative thinking to develop appropriate solutions.
(S2) Global perspectives demonstrate international perspectives as professionals/citizens; locate, discuss, analyse, evaluate information from international sources; consider issues from a variety of cultural perspectives, consider ethical and social responsibility issues in international settings; value diversity of language and culture.
(S3) Communication skills.

Aims

• To situate current criminal justice policy pre-occupations with the victim of crime within the context of victimological and sociological theorising.

• To map the nature and extent of criminal victimisation.

• To explore the impact of criminal victimisation.

• To understand the role of victims’ movements in the formulation of criminal justice policy.

Learning Outcomes

• To develop a critical appreciation of the sub-discipline of victimology, its strengths and weaknesses.

• To grasp an understanding of the formulation of criminal justice policy within a wider socio-political context.

• To critically evaluate the efficacy of the concept of the victim and victim-oriented policies within the contemporary cultural context.

• To have a sound, critical knowledge of the nature and extent of crime and its impact.

Aims
To critically analyse the forms of harm that state institutions and corporate entities are responsible for in SE Asia. - To unpack the specific social and legal order surrounding state-corporate crime and harm in SE Asia. - To assess the explanatory potential of theoretical frameworks developed in the Global North to understand the dynamics between states and corporations in SE Asia. - To investigate the role of regulation and politics in shaping state-corporate activities in contemporary SE Asian nation-states and regional supranational bodies.

Learning Outcomes
(LO1) Conceptually grasp the distinction between social harm and crime in relation to state-corporate crime in SE Asia; especially having an awareness of the potential inadequacy of legally defined notions of crime in capturing the nature of the state and corporate harm.
(LO2) Appreciate and recognise a range of harms and crimes that corporations and states are responsible for in SE Asia; including environmental, consumer-based, employee-based and financial crimes/harms.
(LO3) Identify the specific economic, political and social conditions in SE Asia under which states and corporations operate and compare them to the ones in the Global North and other regions from the Global South.
(LO4) Be able to critically evaluate the wider socio-legal order, such as the desire to sustain high growth rates or unequal class relations, in generating or producing harmful and criminal processes.
(LO5) Identify and understand the influence of a range of political tensions and contradictions which influence the acceptance or resistance to state-corporate crime and harm, such as the role of activist movements and corporate lobby groups.
(S1) Information skills – Critical reading
(S2) Information skills – Information accessing
(S3) Critical thinking and problem-solving – Synthesis
(S4) Critical thinking and problem-solving – Critical analysis
(S5) Communication (oral, written and visual) – Academic writing

Aims
• Understand the relevance of decolonial theory to criminology and criminal justice studies.
• Become familiar with and be able to critically compare and contrast a number of decolonial approaches to criminology, including Postcolonial Criminology, Counter-Colonial Criminology, Asian Criminology and Southern Criminology.
• Explore emerging paradigms which relate to decolonial criminology, including Islamic Criminology, Queer Criminology and Feminist Criminology.
• Apply decolonial paradigms to criminological research issues in the Global South, including in Latin America, Asia and Africa.
• Critique the limitations of decolonial criminology and its ability to realise social justice.
• Creatively explore potential trajectories of decolonial criminology in the future.
• Develop a broader geopolitical and historical awareness of relationships between the Global North and the Global South so as to be able to operationalise these theoretical discussions beyond the university setting (i.e. in future employment or community work).

Learning Outcomes
(LO1) Students will be able to exhibit a critical understanding of decolonial theory and decolonial criminology paradigms
(LO2) Students will be able to apply decolonial criminology to Global South Contexts
(LO3) Students will be able to develop an ability to critique decolonial criminology
(LO4) Students will be able to explore contemporary and future trajectories of decolonial criminology as it rapidly expands
(S1) Students will develop skills in problem-solving, critical thinking, creativity, analysing facts and situations and applying creative thinking to develop appropriate solutions.
(S2) Students will develop skills in possessing global perspectives, demonstrating international perspectives as professionals/citizens; locating, discussing, analysing, evaluating information from international sources; considering issues from a variety of cultural perspectives, considering ethical and social responsibility issues in international settings; valuing the diversity of language and culture
(S3) Communication skills
(S4) Academic Writing
(S5) Formulating a suitable research question and being able to identify appropriate methods for addressing the question
(S6) Pursuing independent research
(S7) Collaborating and team-work

Aims
To introduce the student to an understanding of the relationship between crime and community as this has been developed since the late 1970s in western criminology. The critically evaluate some of the main crime prevention policy objectives in which have been introduced over the last two decades.

Learning Outcomes
By the end of the module and as a result of your attendance at lectures, seminars and private study you will be expected to be able to demonstrate a critical understanding of:

• the differential impact of crime on various groups within society, from the late 1970s onwards

• the different crime prevention paradigms which have been applied in Britain and their local and national context, over this time period

• the academic contribution to key debates around crime prevention which have taken place since the late 1970s in lnternational policy context

• definitions of community and the community context in which the success of crime prevention policies are measured