Global Crime and Justice

Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Demonstrate a critical understanding of the impact on crime and injustice of various forms of conflict and social change.
• Challenge parochialism in these areas with a global perspective.
• Challenge 'common sense' and media-led approaches.
• Transferable skills: communication skills; problem solving; organisation skills; critical and comparative analysis.
• Consider issues of crime and injustice in a global context.
• Cogitate reflexively on the limits of 'nation-state criminology' and how these can be overcome.
• Demonstrate a critical knowledge of key areas of global crime and justice including the inter-connectedness of 'the local' and 'the global'.
• Demonstrate the ability to apply criminological knowledge and perspectives to the area of global crime and justice.
• Understand the impact of conflict and social change.

• Comparative criminology and research challenges
• State crime, war crime, and human rights
• (Transnational) organised crime and criminal networks
• Human trafficking, human smuggling, and (illegal) migration
• Drug trades and drug policies
• Green criminology: looking at environmental harms from a criminological perspective
• Corruption and money laundering
• Cybercrimes: a taster on crimes of deception and coercion
• Understanding and confronting global terrorism

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.