Module Information

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this module students should be able to:

1. Display an understanding of the major theories, concepts, values, debates, principles, and approaches relating to a wide variety of contemporary issues in criminology.

2. Explain how crime, deviance, and victimisation are socially and legally constructed, with reference to contemporary issues in criminology.

3. Identify the key issues, policies, processes, institutions, actors, and debates surrounding contemporary and newly emerging issues in criminology.

4. Explain how discussions relating to contemporary criminological issues are utilised on a local, national, and international basis and their impact upon political, media and popular opinion in this area.

5. Identify the key dynamics, processes and problems facing contemporary criminological theory and practice.

6. Explain how approaches to criminology help us to understand and influence its effects, and how this is in turn influenced by other theories from related disciplines.

7. Assess the merits of competing theories, policies and intellectual approaches concerned with a range of contemporary issues in criminology.

8. Display an understanding of how criminological research should be read and critically analysed.

9. Display a reflective approach to various contemporary issues facing criminology and show a critical understanding of analytical methods.

10. Communicate the contemporary theories of and associated research in criminology effectively to diverse audiences.

Aims

Brief description

Content