Course overview
This course explores a range of contemporary issues in the field of criminology. Students will examine various topics, which include both emerging theoretical, as well as practical, debates surrounding the study of crime and deviance, policing, punishment, and social inequality. Note that the specific subject matter covered in this course will change from year-to-year to reflect timely issues facing the discipline.
Course learning outcomes
- Critically assess the actuarial turn in crime policy and the role played by governmentality and risk in late modernity
- Comprehend the interconnections of theories and practices relating to punishment, victims and justice
- Analyse the social-political dynamics surrounding the social construction of deviance and the attention paid to crimes committed by the powerful
- Evaluate the limitations of criminology as a disciplinary project
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