Module overview
Linked modules
HIST3075
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- The changing structure of the criminal justice system between 1688 and 1840.
- The different forms of evidence available to historians for uncovering the histories of crime and punishment.
- The nature and incidence of crime in the period and the extent to which historical research confirms the perceptions of contemporaries.
- Changing attitudes towards punishment, in particular the move away from capital punishment to imprisonment.
Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Reflect upon the impact of the development of the police force - and changing penal policy in particular - with regard to the treatment of crime today.
- Analyse a wide range of primary source material (including images), with regard to the specific context.
- Identify and engage with the most important historiographical texts on the subject.
- 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.
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Collect data and information, evaluate it, and integrate it in an essay.
- Perform research with electronic media on a wide range of subjects.
- Learn to develop critical time management skills by handling several tasks competently at the same time.
Syllabus
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
Type | Hours |
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Independent Study | 260 |
Teaching | 40 |
Total study time | 300 |
Resources & Reading list
General Resources
British Newspapers 1600-1900 access through library website.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) access through library website.
Internet Resources
The Proceedings of the Old Bailey Online.
Textbooks
J. Briggs, C. Harrison, A. McInnes and D. Vincent (2001). Crime and Punishment in England: An Introductory History.
M. Gaskill (2002). Crime and Mentalities in Early Modern England.
C. Emsley (1987). Crime and Society in England, 1750-1900.
J. Beattie (2001). Policing and Punishment in London, 1660-1750: Urban Crime and the Limits of Terror.
J. Beattie (1986). Crime and the Courts in England, 1660-1800.
V. A. C. Gatrell (1984). The Hanging Tree: Execution and the English People, 1770-1868.
D. Taylor (1998). Crime, Policing and Punishment in England, 1750-1914.
J. Sharpe (1984). Crime in Early Modern England, 1550-1750.
D. Hay, et al (1976). Albion’s Fatal Tree: Crime and Society in Eighteenth Century England.
F. McLynn (1989). Crime and Punishment in Eighteenth Century England.
P. King (2000). Justice and Discretion in England, 1740-1820.
J. S. Cockburn, ed (1977). Crime in England, 1550-1800.
Assessment
Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Written assignment | 50% |
Essay | 50% |
Referral
This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Essay | 50% |
Written assignment | 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 |
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Essay | 50% |
Written assignment | 50% |
Repeat Information
Repeat type: Internal & External