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Module SXY-3032:
Power, Crime and Punishment

Module Facts

Run by School of History, Law and Social Sciences

20.000 Credits or 10.000 ECTS Credits

Semester 2

Organiser: Dr Tim Holmes

Overall aims and purpose

Power relations play a critical role in relation to crime, criminalisation, and punitive crime control, three areas that form the core concerns of criminological enquiry. The aim of this module is to enable students to glean a deeper understanding of this critical role. This will be achieved by focusing on discrete areas of inquiry that illustrate the power relations that underpin the state’s management of crime. This module aims to provide the key theoretical concerns and texts on power relationships between individuals, organisations and the state, especially within the framework of crime, violence, criminal justice and punishment.

Course content

Part One: State crimes - From ghettos to genocide: how does criminology and criminal justice respond when it is those in power, in particular, the State who offends? How do we define crime, justice and victimisation in this context? (3 weeks)

Part Two: Interpersonal crimes - Many crimes of power take place at an interpersonal level: examples may include ‘honour’- based violence and coercion; homophobic hate crimes; and gender violence in intimate relationships. How do social and criminal justice systems respond to these forms of crime? (3 weeks)

Part Three: Institutional power - Prisons represent institutional power at both physical and symbolic levels. Power may take many forms and examples include: prisons and the construction of masculinities and femininities; political power in prisons, using the example of Northern Ireland during the ‘Troubles’. (5 weeks)

Learning outcomes

  1. Apply an understanding of crime and power to broader frameworks, e.g. political and economic.

  2. Understand what is meant by power relations between and amongst individuals, organisations and the State in the context of crime, deviance and criminal justice

  3. Understand the different ways in which power can be used and abused.

  4. Acquire knowledge of the mechanisms that help to protect individuals and organisations from abuses of power.

  5. Appreciate the diverse ways in which the application of power is legitimised or criminalised

  6. Appreciate the centrality of philosophical/moral theorizing for understanding, and gaining critical insight into, contemporary practices of punitive control.

  7. Apply philosophical/moral perspectives to a range of contemporary practices of punitive control.

Assessment Methods

Type Name Description Weight
Powerpoint presentation 40.00
Essay 60.00

Teaching and Learning Strategy

Hours

Courses including this module

Compulsory in courses:

  • LM3Y: BA Cymdeithaseg&CriminologyCrimJ year 3 (BA/CCCJ)
  • M93B: BA Criminology & Criminal Just (4yr with Incorp Foundation) year 3 (BA/CCJ1)
  • LC31: BA Criminology & Crim Justice & Psychology (with Int Exp) year 4 (BA/CCJPIE)
  • M931: BA Criminology & Criminal Justice with International Exp year 4 (BA/CJIE)
  • M930: BA Criminology & Criminal Justice year 3 (BA/CRIM)
  • M93P: BA Criminology and Criminal Justice with Placement Year year 4 (BA/CRIMP)
  • MR95: BA Criminology&Criml Just/Italian year 4 (BA/CRIT)
  • MC98: BA Criminology/Psychology year 3 (BA/CRP)
  • MR94: BA Criminology/Spanish year 4 (BA/CRSP)
  • M3Q9: BA English Literature and Criminology and Criminal Justice year 3 (BA/ENC)
  • MR91: BA French/Criminology&Crim'l Just year 4 (BA/FRCR)
  • MR92: BA Criminology&CrimJustice/German year 4 (BA/GCR)
  • MVX1: BA History/Criminology year 3 (BA/HCR)
  • LM4X: BA Polisi Cymdeithasol & Criminology and Criminal Justice year 3 (BA/PCCCJ)
  • LM40: BA Sociology & Criminology & Crim Just with International Ex year 4 (BA/SCJIE)
  • LM39: BA Sociology and Criminology & Criminal Justice year 3 (BA/SCR)
  • LM50: BA Social Policy and Criminology and Criminal Justice (IE) year 4 (BA/SPCIE)
  • LM49: BA Social Policy/Criminology year 3 (BA/SPCR)
  • C813: BSc Psychology with Forensic Psychology year 3 (BSC/PSYFP)
  • C84B: BSc Psychology with Forensic Psych (4 yr with Incorp Foundn) year 4 (BSC/PSYFP1)
  • C81P: BSc Psychology with Forensic Psychology with Placement Year year 4 (BSC/PSYFPP)
  • M113: LLB Law with Criminology (Intl Exp) year 4 (LLB/LIK)
  • M1M9: LLB Law with Criminology year 3 (LLB/LWCR)
  • M1MB: LLB Law with Criminology (4 yr with Incorporated Foundation) year 3 (LLB/LWCR1)
  • M1MP: LLB Law with Criminology with Placement Year year 4 (LLB/LWCRP)

Optional in courses:

  • X315: BA Childhood and Youth Studies and Sociology year 3 (BA/CYSS)
  • LL13: BA Sociology/Economics year 3 (BA/ECS)
  • LL2B: BA Sociology & Economics (4 yr with Incorporated Foundation) year 3 (BA/ECS1)
  • LQ3J: BA English Lang. & Sociology year 3 (BA/ELSOC)
  • V100: BA History year 3 (BA/H)
  • V10F: BA History [with Foundation Year] year 3 (BA/HF)
  • 8B03: BA History (with International Experience) year 4 (BA/HIE)
  • V10P: BA History with Placement Year year 4 (BA/HP)
  • V140: BA Modern & Contemporary History year 3 (BA/MCH)
  • V130: BA Mediaeval and Early Modern His year 3 (BA/MEMH)
  • VV15: BA Medieval & Early Modern History with International Exp year 4 (BA/MEMHIE)
  • LP33: BA Media Studies and Sociology year 3 (BA/MSSOC)
  • L200: BA Politics year 3 (BA/POL)
  • L20F: BA Politics [with Foundation Year] year 3 (BA/POLF)
  • L201: BA Politics with Placement Year year 3 (BA/POLP)
  • L300: BA Sociology year 3 (BA/S)
  • L31B: BA Sociology (4 year with Incorporated Foundation) year 3 (BA/S1)
  • 3L3Q: BA Sociology and English Literature year 3 (BA/SEL)
  • L30F: BA Sociology [with Foundation Year] year 3 (BA/SF)
  • LV31: BA Sociology/History year 3 (BA/SH)
  • 8Y70: BA Sociology (with International Experience) year 4 (BA/SIE)
  • LQ31: BA Sociology/Linguistics year 3 (BA/SL)
  • L41B: BA Social Policy (4 year with Incorporated Foundation) year 3 (BA/SOCP1)
  • L402: BA Social Policy year 3 (BA/SOCPOL)
  • L40F: BA Social Policy [with Foundation Year] year 3 (BA/SOCPOLF)
  • L30P: BA Sociology with Placement Year year 4 (BA/SOP)
  • LVH2: BA Welsh History/Sociology year 3 (BA/WHS)
  • LQ35: BA Cymraeg and Sociology year 3 (BA/WS)
  • V102: MArts History with International Experience year 3 (MARTS/HIE)
  • V101: MArts History year 3 (MARTS/HIST)
  • L403: MSocSci Social Policy year 3 (MSOCSCI/SP)

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