Unit name | Understanding Crime, Harm and Society |
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Unit code | SPOL10020 |
Credit points | 20 |
Level of study | C/4 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 1 (weeks 1 - 12) |
Unit director | Dr. Joanna Large |
Open unit status | Open |
Pre-requisites |
None |
Co-requisites |
None |
School/department | School for Policy Studies |
Faculty | Faculty of Social Sciences and Law |
Crime and related harms are significant issues in society. This unit introduces students to various forms of crime and harms which are prevalent in different societies including sex crimes and murder, as well as social harms that are less visible but which may have deleterious impact on people's well-being. This includes, for example, political violence, as well as harms in the workplace caused by health and safety breaches and harms in the street caused by pollution. The unit will explore why some crimes are more visible than others in the public and political imagination. Specifically, the unit will examine, in national and international contexts:
Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:
Lectures (20 hours) and Seminars (10 hours) plus 1 reading week and 1 revision week.
The assessments have been developed in order to meet the intended learning outcomes of the unit:
Formative assessment is by:
Summative assessment is by:
All assessment is marked against the published marking criteria for that level, as stated in the Programme handbook.
Corteen, K., Morley,S., Taylor, P. & Turner, J. (2016, forthcoming) A companion to crime, harm and victimisation, The Policy Press: Bristol
Davies, P., Francis, P., and Wyatt, T. (2014) Invisible Crimes and Social Harms, London: Palgrave
Hale C, Hayward K, Wahidin A, and Wincup E (eds.) (2013 3rd ed.) Criminology, Oxford, Oxford University Press
Hillyard P, Pantazis C, Tombs S and Gordon D (eds.) (2004) Beyond Criminology: Taking Harm Seriously, London: Pluto
Newburn, T. (2013, 2nd ed.) Criminology, Cullompton :Willan