Abstract/essay plan

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Students are introduced to and encouraged to think critically about key controversies and debates within contemporary criminology.

Feedback is provided in a number of ways throughout your module. This includes feedback you receive during teaching from both peers and lecturers and that provided for formative assessment. Following an assessment, you will be given your marks and feedback in line with the assessment regulations and policy. More information on the timing and type of feedback that will be provided for each assessment will be available from the module leader. <a href='https://www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/about/governance/policies/student-policies-and-regulations'>https://www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/about/governance/policies/student-policies-and-regulations</a>

This module will support the development of all the graduate attributes. Your module leader will provide you with information about how your learning, teaching and assessment activities support your development of these attributes. The graduate attributes are: - Always learning - Engaged in the world - Technical and digital - Connected Professional - Creating Impact

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Criminology

Cultural Criminology: An invitation.

The Culture of Control: Crime and Social Order in Contemporary Society

The Oxford Handbook of Criminology

SG2043 - Key Issues in Criminology

SG2043-PRD1-PER-ALV1

Teaching will be through lectures and seminars.

Key Issues in Criminology

Engage with controversial arguments (to which you, as a student, do not necessarily subscribe) accurately and fairly

Values and attitudes

Engage in contemporary debates about key issues in criminology 

Skills

Demonstrate an appreciation of contemporary criminological issues and the ability to evaluate a range of different approaches to them

Identify and evaluate the complexities of criminal justice in relation to the changing nature of criminality

Knowledge

Describe and define the major issues shaping criminal justice

Gather, retrieve and synthesise information about key issues in criminology from a number of different sources

Appreciate in a critical fashion the major debates surrounding the morality and effectiveness or otherwise of different crime control models

Recognise competing perspectives on and functions of the criminal justice system

Recognise key contemporary criminological perspectives and grasp the changing direction of the discipline

Challenge received explanations of topics and controversies in criminology