Unit name | Globalisation, Crime, Harm and Justice |
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Unit code | SPOL20025 |
Credit points | 20 |
Level of study | I/5 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 2 (weeks 13 - 24) |
Unit director | Dr. Joanna Large |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
None |
Co-requisites |
None |
School/department | School for Policy Studies |
Faculty | Faculty of Social Sciences and Law |
There is increasing acknowledgement that globalisation is manifestly related to the production of crimes and developments within criminal justice. Globalisation is identified as fomenting conditions, which are facilitating the development, re-configuration, and proliferation of different forms of crimes and harms. This is most evident with respect to the growth in crimes taking place across international boundaries and which require international or cross-border interventions. Thus, whilst national states continue to play a central role in dealing with crimes and harms, it is also increasingly being over-shadowed by international organisations in response to developments concerning globalised crimes.
This will provide students with detailed understanding of the relationship between globalisation and crime/harm and justice. Specifically, it will aim to:
On successful completion of the unit students should be able to:
1.Explain the theoretical links between globalisation and crime/harm
2. Give an account of the theoretical debates concerning globalised crime/harm and governance
3. Demonstrate detailed knowledge of particular crimes/harms in relation to globalisation
4. Give an account and an assessment of the growth of international forms of criminal justice
5. Explain the extent to which concepts such as policy travel, policy convergence are relevant to explaining developments in criminal justice in the context of globalised crimes.
Lectures and seminars
The assessment have been developed in order to meet the intended learning outcomes of the unit:
Formative assessment: a 2500 word essay
Summative assessment: 3000 word essay (100%)
Aas, K, (2012) Globalisation and Crime, London: SAGE
Cain, M. and Howe, A. (2008) (eds.) Women, crime and social harm: towards a criminology for the global age, Oxford: Hart
Drake, D., Muncie, J., & Westmarland, L. (eds.) (2010) Criminal Justice: local and global, Willan: Open University Press
Findlay, M. (2013) Governing through Globalised crime: futures for international criminal justice, London Routledge
Lee, M. (2011) Trafficking and global crime control, London: Sage.
Muncie, J., Talbot, D., and Walters, R, (eds.) (2010) Crime: Local and Global, Cullompton: Willan/Open University Press
Pakes F (2013) (ed.) Globalisation and the challenge to criminology, London: Routledge