Crime and Criminal Justice: Historical Perspectives

Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Subject specific intellectual and research skills: link current issues with processes of social change and inter alia recognise the value of history.
• Transferrable and generic skills: challenge ‘common sense’ arguments.
• Transferrable and generic skills: further enhance your critical thinking.
• Subject specific intellectual and research skills: locating and using a range of sources in the development of assessed work and in preparation for seminars.
• Subject specific intellectual and research skills: enhanced communication skills.
• Knowledge and understanding: demonstrate a critical knowledge of historical and empirical studies in criminology.
• Transferrable and generic skills: recognise the importance of the voices of ordinary people.
• Knowledge and understanding: demonstrate a critical awareness of the role of social change and its impact upon crime and its control.
• Knowledge and understanding: demonstrate a critical knowledge of the historical development of key areas of the criminal justice system.
• Subject specific intellectual and research skills: reading skills.
• Transferrable and generic skills: experience working with a range of empirical, theoretical and policy documents.
• Subject specific intellectual and research skills: extend critical skills to include historical analysis and debates.

Modern criminology attaches importance to the social context of crime and especially the influence of the wider society. This module takes this as its core theme and examines changes in crime and its control in socio-historical contexts including the processes of industrialization and urbanization and the impact that these had on definitions of crime, explanations of crime and approaches to its control.

Teaching and learning methods

Large group lectures, small group seminars and individual assignment clinics.

Resources & Reading list

Textbooks

Clive Emsley (2010). Crime and Society in England 1750-1900. London: Routledge.

Barry Godfrey et al. (eds) (2003). Comparative Histories of Crime. Cullompton: Willan.

Pearson, G. (1983). Hooligan: A History of Respectable Fears. London: Pearson.

Summative

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Referral

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Repeat Information

Repeat type: Internal & External