Module overview
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Learning Outcomes
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Work with others to investigate problems and to present arguments and evidence.
- Assess the importance of history in understanding contemporary criminological and sociological issues.
- Challenge ‘common sense’ arguments.
- Demonstrate a critical knowledge of historical and empirical studies in criminology and sociology.
- Understand the role of social change and its impact upon social life, conflict, crime and social control.
- Identify, select and draw upon a range of sources to support the development of an argument
- Communicate ideas and arguments in a variety of written formats.
- Outline the historical development of key areas relating to social conflict, perceptions of deviance, and the criminal justice system.
- Recognise the importance of the voices of ordinary people.
- Describe and examine a range of key concepts and theoretical approaches in sociology and criminology, evaluate their application and use them to analyse social phenomena and crime, victimisation and deviance
Syllabus
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
Type | Hours |
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Independent Study | 126 |
Teaching | 24 |
Total study time | 150 |
Resources & Reading list
Textbooks
Michel Foucault (2020). Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. London: Penguin.
Barry Godfrey et al. (eds) (2003). Comparative Histories of Crime. Cullompton: Willan.
Christopher Hamerton and Sue Hobbs (2022). Privatising Criminal Justice: History, Neoliberal Penality and the Commodification of Crime. Oxford: Routledge.
Clive Emsley (2010). Crime and Society in England 1750-1900. London: Routledge.
Pearson, G. (1983). Hooligan: A History of Respectable Fears. London: Pearson.
Assessment
Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Extended Essay | 100% |
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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Extended Essay | 100% |
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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Extended Essay | 100% |
Repeat Information
Repeat type: Internal & External