SC242: Course Outline

Part 1 (Autumn Term) Criminological Imaginations: Theories of Crime and Control

1. Introduction and welcome to the course and to Criminology.
Foundations I: Classicism
2. Foundations II: Positivism.
3. Foundations III: The rise of Sociological Criminology - from Chicago to Labelling
4. Critiques I: Marxism
5. Critiques II: Feminism(s)
6. Critiques III: Critical Criminologies
7. Critiques IV: Comparative criminology
8. Conservative approaches and the New Right
9. Left realism and social exclusion
10. Power, surveillance and modernity

Part 2 (SpringTerm) Global and Local Crime

11. Women, victimisation and crime (Guest lecture: JT)
12. Ethnicity, minorities and crime - childhood questions (Guest lecture: CR)
13. The Medicalisation and criminalisation of drugs.
14. Drugs, crime and control
15. Organised Professional crime
16. READING WEEK. (NOT a week off: use this week to catch up on essays, finalise your journal, prepare for classes, do the reading you keep meaning to do etc.)
17. Business crime: corporate and white collar crime.
18. Eco-crimes: crimes against the environment
19. Terrorism in a changing world
20. Postmodernism, Globalisation and Criminology
21. & 22: Revision Sessions