Module overview
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Learn to develop critical time management skills by handling several tasks competently at the same time.
- Collect data and information, evaluate it, and integrate it in an essay.
- Perform research with electronic media on a wide range of subjects.
Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Analyse a wide range of primary source material (including images), with regard to the specific context, and comment succinctly on their significance in a gobbets exam.
- Describe the changing patterns of criminal activity in the period 1688 to 1840.
- Make connections between Enlightenment theories and the development of the criminal justice system.
- Identify and engage with the most important historiographical texts on the subject.
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- The nature and incidence of crime in the period and the extent to which historical research confirms the perceptions of contemporaries.
- The different forms of evidence available to historians for uncovering the histories of crime and punishment.
- The changing structure of the criminal justice system between 1688 and 1840.
Syllabus
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
Type | Hours |
---|---|
Independent Study | 252 |
Teaching | 48 |
Total study time | 300 |
Resources & Reading list
Textbooks
J. S. Cockburn, ed (1977). Crime in England, 1550-1800.
M. Gaskill (2002). Crime and Mentalities in Early Modern England.
J. Beattie (1986). Crime and the Courts in England, 1660-1800.
F. McLynn (1989). Crime and Punishment in Eighteenth Century England.
V. A. C. Gatrell (1984). The Hanging Tree: Execution and the English People, 1770-1868.
J. Beattie (2001). Policing and Punishment in London, 1660-1750: Urban Crime and the Limits of Terror.
P. King (2000). Justice and Discretion in England, 1740-1820.
C. Emsley (1987). Crime and Society in England, 1750-1900.
D. Hay, et al (1976). Albion’s Fatal Tree: Crime and Society in Eighteenth Century England.
J. Sharpe (1984). Crime in Early Modern England, 1550-1750.
J. Briggs, C. Harrison, A. McInnes and D. Vincent (2001). Crime and Punishment in England: An Introductory History.
D. Taylor (1998). Crime, Policing and Punishment in England, 1750-1914.
Assessment
Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
---|---|
Essay | 50% |
Written assignment | 50% |
Referral
This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
---|---|
Written assignment | 50% |
Essay | 50% |
Repeat
An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.
Method | Percentage contribution |
---|---|
Written assignment | 50% |
Essay | 50% |
Repeat Information
Repeat type: Internal & External