Teaching Responsibility
LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:
Justice Studies
Learning Methods
Online
Module Offerings
7131PS-APR-MTP
7131PS-JAN-MTP
7131PS-SEP-MTP
7131PS-SEP_NS-MTP
Aims
The module aims to introduce students to emerging paradigms within criminology, which tackle safety and security at both local and global levels, and to explore some justifications for the increasing ‘securitisation’ of social life.
Students will explore a variety of social settings where concepts of safety or security are applied. By a process of critical reflection and analysis they will be encouraged to test the success and validity of security provision within these settings and to consider the effects of securitisation processes upon contemporary threats and other regulatory environments.
Key theories and policies related to crime, safety and security will be examined and tested and their, ethical and legal implications outlined. Lectures will be supplemented by the provision of guest speakers with experience in security and safety provision in a variety of sectors.
Students will develop their understanding of contemporary trends in security and emerging security threats, and how to counter them, through relevant scholarly activity, and through reference to the appropriate academic literature and policy documentation.
The module also aims to prepare students for the dissertation.
Learning Outcomes
1.
Critically evaluate the dominant criminological theoretical and conceptual frameworks and their application to emerging issues in crime, safety and security.
2.
Critically Assess changes in the structure and functioning of security and safety as an aspect of the criminal justice system.
3.
Critically use reflection and analysis to understand and develop their own area of expertise within the fields of crime, safety and security.
4.
Utilise relevant research findings in the critical analysis of key current and emerging security issues.
5.
Critically evaluate the most effective responses to key emerging issues in crime, safety and security.
6.
Organise and critically review literature in preparation for research.
7.
Critically differentiate between quantitative and qualitative research methods showing the strengths and weaknesses of each whether used individually or in combination
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:1. Introduction to key criminological theories in security
2. Key issues (1) Organised crime
3. Key issues (2) New terrorism
4. Key Issues (3) Cyber crime
5. Key issues (4) Illegal Migration/trafficking
6. Key issues (5) Illegal drugs
7. Key issues (6) Inequality
8. Responding to crime safety and security threats
9. Conclusions: Safety, Security and the new Criminology
10. Ethical issues in research
11. Producing a Literature Review
12. Designing and conducting research
13. Analysing research data
Additional Information:In the course of this module students will develop their understanding of contemporary trends in security and emerging security threats, and how to counter them, through relevant scholarly activity, and through reference to the appropriate academic literature and policy documentation.