Unit name | Children and Social Harm |
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Unit code | SPOL30060 |
Credit points | 20 |
Level of study | H/6 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 1 (weeks 1 - 12) |
Unit director | Dr. Jo Staines |
Open unit status | Open |
Pre-requisites |
None |
Co-requisites |
None |
School/department | School for Policy Studies |
Faculty | Faculty of Social Sciences and Law |
This unit considers the concept of social harm as it affects children and young people globally. The unit seeks to understand how social relations, policies and practices, discourses, actions and inactions can result in social harm caused to children and young people, either directly or indirectly. The unit uses a range of examples to identify the extent to which children may experience economic/financial, physical, sexual, psychological, and cultural safety harms, and the impact of these harms on their wellbeing. These examples may be situated within the family (such as the impact of parental imprisonment, parental substance abuse or homelessness on children’s well-being) or within statutory institutions (such as formal political, justice, educational and/or child welfare systems). Relevant policy interventions will be analysed to understand how we can develop a safer society that reduces the harms experienced by children and young people.
Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:
Lectures and seminars
The assessment have been developed in order to meet the intended learning outcomes of the unit:
Level 6: formative assessment is a 1 hour mock exam; summative assessment is a 3 hour unseen exam paper
Finkelhor, D. (2014) Childhood victimization : violence, crime, and abuse in the lives of young people, Oxford : Oxford University Press
Jutte, S., Bentley, H., Tallis, D., Mayes, J., Jetha, N., O’Hagan, O., Brookes, H., & McConnell (2015) How safe are our children? The most comprehensive overview of child protection in the UK, London : NSPCC https://www.nspcc.org.uk/globalassets/documents/research-reports/how-safe-children-2015-report.pdf
Parker, R. (2004) 'Children and the concept of harm' in Hillyard et al (eds.) Beyond Criminology: Taking Harm Seriously, London: Pluto
Pemberton, S. (2015) Harmful Societies: Understanding Social Harm, Bristol: The Policy Press (Chapter Two)
Journals such as Children and Society, Childhood, The International Journal of Children’s Rights