Teaching Responsibility
LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:
Justice Studies
Learning Methods
Lecture
Online
Workshop
Module Offerings
5200CRIM-SEP-MTP
Aims
1. To explore key theoretical perspectives within criminology through a critical engagement with the work of a range of key
thinkers.
2. To understand the intellectual histories of the work of a range of key thinkers in criminology.
3. To evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of these theorists’ work for explaining crime and our responses to it.
Learning Outcomes
1.
Evidence an engaged reading of thinkers whose work is seminal for understanding the role of criminology.
2.
Understand the social, political, and historical contexts out of which these theorists’ work developed.
3.
Critique dominant ways of thinking about crime and crime control using theory.
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:
An indicative range of topics studied includes: • An examination of some of the contributions of key thinkers who have had, or should have, a significant impact on criminological theorising. • An exploration of the contribution of key thinkers to understanding the relationships between social class, ‘race’, gender and crime and response to crime. • A consideration of the contribution of key thinkers to understanding the relationship between power, crime, and crime control.
An indicative range of topics studied includes: • An examination of some of the contributions of key thinkers who have had, or should have, a significant impact on criminological theorising. • An exploration of the contribution of key thinkers to understanding the relationships between social class, ‘race’, gender and crime and response to crime. • A consideration of the contribution of key thinkers to understanding the relationship between power, crime, and crime control.
Module Overview:
This module will help you to critically evaluate the theoretical perspectives of a number of key thinkers in criminology. A review of existing literature will enable you to appreciate the intellectual histories of their work. In doing so, you will be able to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of these theorists’ work for explaining crime and our responses to it.
This module will help you to critically evaluate the theoretical perspectives of a number of key thinkers in criminology. A review of existing literature will enable you to appreciate the intellectual histories of their work. In doing so, you will be able to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of these theorists’ work for explaining crime and our responses to it.
Additional Information:
This module draws on the work of an interdisciplinary range of thinkers and theorists whose work has had, or can make, an important theoretical contribution to our understandings of criminology. It introduces students to each chosen thinker or theorist, including the biographical, historical, social and political contexts in which they were or are writing, and gives a brief outline of their respective bodies of work. Particular emphasis will then be placed on one seminal theoretical contribution made by each chosen thinker.
This module draws on the work of an interdisciplinary range of thinkers and theorists whose work has had, or can make, an important theoretical contribution to our understandings of criminology. It introduces students to each chosen thinker or theorist, including the biographical, historical, social and political contexts in which they were or are writing, and gives a brief outline of their respective bodies of work. Particular emphasis will then be placed on one seminal theoretical contribution made by each chosen thinker.