Teaching Responsibility
LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:
Justice Studies
Learning Methods
Lecture
Tutorial
Module Offerings
7044LAWCJ-JAN-MTP
Aims
To provide students with a broad critical understanding of the different paradigms and perspectives on substance (mis)use and relevant policy in relation to crime and criminal justice. This will be achieved by the module being broken down into three distinctive teaching blocks. Block 1 aims to set a critical socio-cultural scene in order for students to build up a comprehensive picture of drug and alcohol use within contemporary capitalist society. Block 2 aims to develop students understanding of drug policy and critically consider the rationale and motivations that mould policy developments within this sphere. Block 3 aims to develop students knowledge of how drug and alcohol users are responded to within a criminal justice context. This involves a detailed consideration of a number of interventions and treatment programmes that are currently utilised.
Learning Outcomes
1.
Demonstrate a critical understanding of the nature and prevalence of drug and alcohol use and crime.
2.
Discuss critically drug and alcohol policies in relation to crime.
3.
Examine and critically evaluate drug related crime and disorder, and criminal justice responses to these problems.
4.
Critically analyse drug and alcohol-related prevention and control strategies.
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:Block 1: Setting a critical socio-cultural scene
Use, Abuse, Harm and Hedonism.
The Creation of Caricatures.
Normalised and/or Normative?
Drugs and Crime: A critical analysis
Alcohol, Crime and Culture
Block 2: Policy
Drug and Alcohol Policy: Past and Present
Alternatives for the Future
Block 3: Interventions
Interventions with young drug users.
Court sanctioned community based drug interventions.
Custody based drug interventions.
Therapeutic Communities as a model of treatment.
Alternative methods of working with active substance users in the community.
Module Overview:
This module aims to develop your understanding of drug and alcohol use within contemporary society. It deconstructs the drug and alcohol status quo so you can acknowledge the complexities and contradictions that exist within this sphere. It aims to:
This module aims to develop your understanding of drug and alcohol use within contemporary society. It deconstructs the drug and alcohol status quo so you can acknowledge the complexities and contradictions that exist within this sphere. It aims to:
- provide a broad critical understanding of the different paradigms and perspectives on substance (mis)use and relevant policy in relation to crime and criminal justice
- set a critical socio-cultural scene for you to build up a comprehensive picture of drug and alcohol use within contemporary capitalist society
- develop your understanding of drug policy and critically consider the rationale and motivations that mould policy developments within this sphere
- develop your knowledge of how drug and alcohol users are responded to within a criminal justice context
Additional Information:This module aims to develop students' understanding of drug and alcohol use within contemporary society. It initially provides an analysis of the socio-cultural role of drug and alcohol use before progressing towards an exploration of policy and practical responses to 'problematic' use and users within a criminal justice context. The module deconstructs the drug and alcohol status quo in order for students to acknowledge the complexities and contradictions that exist within this sphere. It allows students to explore the objectives of drug and alcohol policies and to consider these in relation to the past, present and future, receiving formative feedback as they progress through the interactive sessions. Finally, the module affords students an insight into the practical implications of drug interventions and the reality of rehabilitative methods of addressing problematic drug use.