Undergraduate Course: Crime, Policing and Punishment: Great Britain and Ireland since 1800 (ECSH10104)
Course Outline
| School | School of History, Classics and Archaeology |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 40 |
ECTS Credits | 20 |
| Summary | This course examines the experience of criminal justice, policing and systems of punishment from c. 1800 to 2000, focusing on Great Britain and Ireland (located within a broader global context). It centres on three core questions: Who has had access to 'justice' and with what effects? Who has enforced 'law and order' and on whose behalf? What has been the purpose of penal policy and what difference has it made? |
| Course description |
This course combines exploration of key debates in criminal justice history and historical criminology (relating to security, crime prevention, access to justice and civil liberties) with indepth analysis of primary source materials (including official documents, court reports, newspaper coverage and cultural representations). By examining a period of 200 years it maps changes in policing, criminal justice and penal/welfare policy - as a set of ideals and as lived experience - in relation to broader political, social, economic and cultural transformations (including (post)colonialism, liberalism, the rise of mass democracy, consumerism and total war). The course considers the intersection of class, gender, race, ethnicity, religion and age in shaping identities, subjectivities, and experiences across time.
As well as developing understanding of the institutions of law, police, criminal justice and punishment in modern Great Britain and Ireland, the course will develop skills in researching and analysing primary sources (including quantitative data, visual imagery and film).
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | A pass in 40 credits of third level historical courses or equivalent.
Before enrolling students on this course, Personal Tutors are asked to contact the History Honours Admission Administrator to ensure that a place is available (Tel: 504030). |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- demonstrate by way of coursework command of the body of knowledge considered in the course;
- demonstrate by way of coursework an ability to read, analyse and reflect critically upon relevant scholarship;
- demonstrate by way of coursework an ability to understand, evaluate and utilise a variety of primary source material;
- demonstrate by way of coursework the ability to develop and sustain scholarly arguments in oral and written form, by formulating appropriate questions and utilising relevant evidence;
- demonstrate independence of mind and initiative; intellectual integrity and maturity; an ability to evaluate the work of others, including peers.
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Reading List
David Barrie and Susan Broomhall, Police Courts in Nineteenth-Century Scotland, 2 vols (2014).
David Churchill, Crime Control and Everyday Life in the Victorian City (2017).
Vicky Conway, Policing Twentieth-Century Ireland (2013).
Clive Emsley, Crime, Police, and Penal Policy: European Experiences 1750-1940 (2007)
David Garland, Punishment and Welfare. A History of Penal Strategies (1985).
Stuart Hall et al., Policing the Crisis. Mugging, the State and Law and Order (2013, 1st edn 1979).
Shani D¿Cruze and Louise Jackson, Women, Crime and Justice in England since 1660 (2007).
Haia Shpayer-Makov, The Ascent of the Detective: Police Sleuths in Victorian and Edwardian England (2011).
Lizzie Seal, Capital Punishment in Twentieth-Century Britain (2015).
James Whitfield, Unhappy Dialogue: The Metropolitan Police and Black Londoners in Post-War Britain (2004).
Barbara Weinberger, Keeping the Peace?: Policing Strikes in Britain, 1906-26 (1991).
John Carter Wood, Violence and Crime in Nineteenth Century England: The Shadow of our Refinement (2004). |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
- Ability to participate in contemporary as well as historical debates regarding criminal justice, policing and punishment;
- Advanced research skills in searching and analysing digitised primary sources, datasets and databases.
- Skills and abilities in devising, planning and delivering an autonomous piece of research
- Skills and abilities in communication |
| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Prof Louise Jackson
Tel: (0131 6)50 3837
Email: Louise.Jackson@ed.ac.uk |
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