Teaching Responsibility
LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:
Justice Studies
Learning Methods
Lecture
Online
Tutorial
Workshop
Module Offerings
4103CRIM-JAN-MTP
Aims
1. Introduce students to a range of contemporary criminological issues and surrounding academic debates.
2. Introduce students to key social divisions that pervade crime, harms and criminal justice.
3. Encourage students to explore the different ways key thinkers have attempted to explain contemporary criminological issues.
Learning Outcomes
1.
Explore how a range of contemporary issues have been discussed within criminological literature.
2.
Demonstrate knowledge of the significance of some key social divisions that pervade crime, harms and criminal justice.
3.
Understand how contemporary issues can be explored in different ways
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:1. Introduction to Theory & Issues
2. Social Divisions: Race, Ethnicity & Indigeneity
3. Social Divisions : Gender & Sexuality
4. Social Divisions : Class & Social Exclusion
5. Interpersonal Violence
6. Hate Crime
7. Youth Crime / Crimes
8. Terrorism
9. State Crime
10. Migration
Module Overview:
This module will look at some contemporary criminological issues within society (some of which are generally ignored by state institutions as well as by much of criminology itself). We will apply our criminological theoretical imagination to help us understand and theorise them. Adopting a critical lens and simultaneously considering social divisions allows us to explore these issues differently to the ways in which, for example, state institutions may define, understand and seek to tackle them.
This module will look at some contemporary criminological issues within society (some of which are generally ignored by state institutions as well as by much of criminology itself). We will apply our criminological theoretical imagination to help us understand and theorise them. Adopting a critical lens and simultaneously considering social divisions allows us to explore these issues differently to the ways in which, for example, state institutions may define, understand and seek to tackle them.
Additional Information:This module will look at some contemporary criminological issues within society, (some of which are generally ignored by state institutions as well as by much of criminology itself), and apply our criminological theoretical imagination to help us understand and theorise them. Adopting a critical lens and simultaneously considering social divisions, allows us to explore these issues differently to the ways in which, for example, state institutions may define, understand and seek to tackle them.