Teaching Responsibility
LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:
Justice Studies
Learning Methods
Lecture
Online
Seminar
Tutorial
Module Offerings
5100CRIM-SEP-MTP
Aims
1. To critically analyse contemporary critical criminological explanations of ‘crime’, harm, deviance and social control.
2. To explore the emergence of critical theories within their socio-economic, political and historical contexts.
3. To evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of critical criminological perspectives alongside identifying continuities and discontinuities between them.
Learning Outcomes
1.
Critically appreciate the diversity, interconnections and strengths and weaknesses of contemporary critical criminological perspectives.
2.
Critically understand the social, political and historical contexts out of which theoretical developments in critical criminology have developed.
3.
Demonstrate critical reflection and ability to challenge dominant ways of thinking about ‘crime’, crime control and social harm.
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:An indicative range of topics studied includes:
• The challenges to ‘positivist criminology’ from the radical / critical criminological paradigm and anti-criminology.
• The socio-economic, political and historical contexts of critical criminological theory.
• Outline of the major critical criminological theoretical perspectives that have developed in the last four decades and links to wider critical social theory.
• The emphasis in critical theory on understanding individual and social problems within broader economic and social inequalities.
Module Overview:
This module focuses upon the critical criminological approaches of 'crime', harm, deviance and social control that have emerged since the 1970s. It introduces you to concepts that are derivative of several competing advanced critical theoretical perspectives, placing them in their social and political context.
This module focuses upon the critical criminological approaches of 'crime', harm, deviance and social control that have emerged since the 1970s. It introduces you to concepts that are derivative of several competing advanced critical theoretical perspectives, placing them in their social and political context.
Additional Information:This module focuses upon the critical criminological approaches of ‘crime’, harm, deviance and social control that have emerged since the 1970s. It introduces concepts that are derivative of several competing advanced critical theoretical perspectives, placing them in their social and political context.