Teaching Responsibility
LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:
Justice Studies
Learning Methods
Lecture
Tutorial
Workshop
Module Offerings
4105PS-JAN-MTP
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
Module Overview:
This module will introduce you to a core of key concepts to encourage you to reflect upon the contribution of criminological theory and to understand contemporary crime issues and policing responses to them.
This module will introduce you to a core of key concepts to encourage you to reflect upon the contribution of criminological theory and to understand contemporary crime issues and policing responses to them.
Additional Information:This course is aimed to give students an introduction to Criminology.