Global Crime and Justice

Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

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

• 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

Resources & Reading list

General Resources

Other. Library resources have been steadily built up in this area. There are a range of journals subscribed to which will be very used.

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.

Repeat Information

Repeat type: Internal & External