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Postgraduate Course: Theoretical Criminology (LAWS11058)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Law CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Course typeStandard AvailabilityAvailable to all students
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) Credits20
Home subject areaLaw Other subject areaNone
Course website None Taught in Gaelic?No
Course descriptionThis course on Theoretical Criminology will assist you in thinking theoretically about crime, criminal justice and social control, focusing in particular on the articulation between theoretical constructs, research strategies and claims to knowledge. You will thus study the ways in which the theoretical resources of the social sciences can be brought to bear upon the phenomena of crime and criminality, their occurrence and distribution, and their contested character. On this Theoretical Criminology course you will consider certain key dimensions within the field of criminology: the interpretation of action in context; the structuring of the field by inequalities and hierarchies of various kinds; issues of institutional continuity and change; and questions of cross-cultural and transnational variation, comparison and convergence. We look at the application of these perspectives in, for example, understanding the place of crime in contemporary urban experience; at the representation of crime and justice in mass media and political culture; and at specific examples of current problems of security and social regulation.
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Additional Costs None
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisitesNone
Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus?Yes
Course Delivery Information
Delivery period: 2013/14 Semester 1, Available to all students (SV1) Learn enabled:  No Quota:  50
Web Timetable Web Timetable
Course Start Date 16/09/2013
Breakdown of Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) Total Hours: 200 ( Seminar/Tutorial Hours 20, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 176 )
Additional Notes
Breakdown of Assessment Methods (Further Info) Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
No Exam Information
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course students should have gained a greater understanding of the historical and contemporary scope and aims of criminological theory and its relations with other species of social scientific thinking. Our primary objectives are to enable students to address theoretical claims in a critical and reflective manner and to deploy concepts in the development of their own research work.
Assessment Information
One essay.
Special Arrangements
None
Additional Information
Academic description Not entered
Syllabus Not entered
Transferable skills Not entered
Reading list Not entered
Study Abroad Not entered
Study Pattern Not entered
KeywordsNot entered
Contacts
Course organiserProf Richard Sparks
Tel: (0131 6)50 2059
Email: r.sparks@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMr Douglas Thompson
Tel: (0131 6)50 2022
Email: D.Thompson@ed.ac.uk
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