Historical Perspectives: Deviance, Conflict, Censure and Control

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.
• Communicate ideas and arguments in a variety of written formats.
• Identify, select and draw upon a range of sources to support the development of an argument
• Assess the importance of history in understanding contemporary criminological and sociological issues.
• Outline the historical development of key areas relating to social conflict, perceptions of deviance, and the criminal justice system.
• Challenge ‘common sense’ arguments.
• Recognise the importance of the voices of ordinary people.
• Demonstrate a critical knowledge of historical and empirical studies in criminology and sociology.
• 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
• Understand the role of social change and its impact upon social life, conflict, crime and social control.

Deviance and Historiography; Foucault: Genealogy, and the Discovery of Discipline; Exploring Social Control: The Birth of the Police; Contemporary Control: The Development of Policing; Evaluating the Just Measure of Pain: Punishment from the Pillory to the Prison; The Victorian Prison and its Critics; Manipulated Change: Exploring Consensus and the Culture of Control; Manufactured Conflict: Capital Punishment – Spectacle, Decline, Abolition; The Political History of Law and Order: Post war Consensus and Welfarism; The Political History of Law and Order: Getting Tough on Crime; Historical Reflections: Module Review and Assessment Planning

Teaching and learning methods

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

Resources & Reading list

Textbooks

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

Michel Foucault (2020). Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. London: Penguin.

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.

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

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

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.

Repeat Information

Repeat type: Internal & External