Unit name | An International Analysis of Crime, Harm and Justice |
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Unit code | SPOLM1065 |
Credit points | 20 |
Level of study | M/7 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 2 (weeks 13 - 24) |
Unit director | Professor. Pantazis |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
None |
Co-requisites |
None |
School/department | School for Policy Studies |
Faculty | Faculty of Social Sciences and Law |
This unit will examine crime, harm and justice from both national and international perspectives. The unit will begin by interrogating the meaning of ‘crime’, ‘harm’ and justice’. It will then consider a number of social issues such as trafficking, drugs, and violence against women by drawing upon different theoretical perspectives and paradigms (e.g. harm reduction, restorative justice) to understand national and international responses to them. By the end of the unit students will have an understanding of the construction of ‘crime’ and ‘justice’; some of key contemporary social issues driving policy responses; and current theoretical approaches informing those responses.
The aims of the unit are:
a) to equip students with a critical understanding of the notions of crime, harm and justice
b) to illustrate these notions by considering a number of cases studies such as human trafficking, drugs, violence against women, terrorism
c) to consider national and international responses to different crimes and harms
to understand the political imperatives and theoretical frameworks underpinning or driving policy responses
By the end of this unit students should have :
The unit will be delivered in 10 sessions of one and half hours through a combination of lectures and seminars.
4,000 word essay.
Garland, D (2001)The culture of control :crime and social order in contemporary society, Oxford: Oxford University Press
Hudson, B (2003) Understanding justice: an introduction to ideas, perspectives and controversies in modern penal policy, Milton Keynes: Open University Press
Hillyard, P., Pantazis, C., Gordon, D., and Tombs, S. (2004) Beyond Criminology: Taking Harm Seriously, London: Sage
Muncie, J., Talbot, D., and Walters, R. (2009) Crime: Local and Global, Devon: Willan