Unit name | Globalisation, Crime, Harm and Justice |
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Unit code | SPOL20025 |
Credit points | 20 |
Level of study | I/5 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 1 (weeks 1 - 12) |
Unit director | Dr. Vicky Canning |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
None |
Co-requisites |
None |
School/department | School for Policy Studies |
Faculty | Faculty of Social Sciences and Law |
There is increasing acknowledgement that globalisation is manifestly related to the production of crimes and developments within criminal justice. Globalisation is identified as fomenting conditions, which are facilitating the development, re-configuration, and proliferation of different forms of crimes and harms. This is most evident with respect to the growth in crimes taking place across international boundaries and which require international or cross-border interventions. Thus, whilst national states continue to play a central role in dealing with crimes and harms, it is also increasingly being over-shadowed by international organisations in response to developments concerning globalised crimes.
This will provide students with detailed understanding of the relationship between globalisation and crime/harm and justice.
On successful completion of the unit students should be able to:
Blended learning will include recorded powerpoint or short lecture; directed learning through asynchronous activity (includes reflective learning points and note taking); assigned academic readings, synchronous seminars and a weekly drop-in session.
Information leaflet for a popular audience (1000 words) (25%)
Case study (2000 words) (75%)
Aas, K, (2012) Globalisation and Crime, London: SAGE
Cain, M. and Howe, A. (2008) (eds.) Women, crime and social harm: towards a criminology for the global age, Oxford: Hart
Drake, D., Muncie, J., & Westmarland, L. (eds.) (2010) Criminal Justice: local and global, Willan: Open University Press
Findlay, M. (2013) Governing through Globalised crime: futures for international criminal justice, London Routledge
Lee, M. (2011) Trafficking and global crime control, London: Sage.
Muncie, J., Talbot, D., and Walters, R, (eds.) (2010) Crime: Local and Global, Cullompton: Willan/Open University Press
Pakes F (2013) (ed.) Globalisation and the challenge to criminology, London: Routledge