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Module Offerings

4504PSHBC-JAN-PAR

Aims

1. To introduce students to a core of key concepts which help constitute mainstream and critical criminology, made relevant for policing. 2. To encourage student to reflect upon the contribution of criminological theory to our understanding of contemporary crime issues and policing responses to them, 3. To encourage students to recognise the divers and contested nature of what constitutes criminology and criminological knowledge.

Learning Outcomes

1.
Identify and understand the meaning and uses of some of the key concepts of mainstream and critical criminology.
2.
Recognise the diverse of approaches within criminology, and some of the possible future trajectories within this broad rubric.
3.
Apply key concepts within criminology to a range of contemporary criminological and policing issues.
4.
Describe how crime, policing and criminalisation sustain and are sustained by social inequality.

Module Content

Outline Syllabus:Introduction to Criminology: an historical overview The Classical School Biological theories of crime(causes) Psychological theories of crime (causes) Situational Crime Prevention and geographical theories of crime (causes) Socio-economic causes of crime (causes) Quantitative and Qualitative criminology Delinquency and youth crime Anti-social behaviour and violence Drug-related crime Illegal immigration Racism and hate crime Terrorism I: pre-9/11 terrorism (socio-historical understanding) Terrorism II: post-9/11 terrorism (causes and forms) Cybercrime and cybersecurity Critical, Realist and Cultural Criminology Gender, crime and criminology State crime, corporate crime, transnational crime War crime, genocide
Additional Information:This course is aimed to give students an introduction to Criminology.

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