Criminological Playlist and Commentary

1 - Written assignment (including essay) - 20

Blog article

2 - Written assignment (including essay) - 80

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Topics covered on the module may include:
<ul><li>Criminology with Music? A Different Way of Doing Criminology</li><li>Babylon Law is a Flaw: What is Wrong with the Law?</li><li>To Be Poor is a Crime: Criminality or Inequality?</li><li>When You Hear the Sirens Coming: What is Policing For?</li><li>Ladies First?: Gendercide Around the World</li><li>It’s a Natural Fact: Crimes Against Nature</li><li>Standing Black and Talking Back: Race and Resistance to Criminal Injustice</li><li>Peace Love and Unity: Alternatives to Punishment</li></ul>

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

Self-directed - 

In-Person - 

A Criminology of Popular Music

The Art of Listening

Music in Crime, Resistance, and Identity

Law and Justice in Song Murder Ballads and Popular Music

Sensory Penalities: Exploring the Senses in Spaces of Punishment and Social Control

Policing the Beats: Black Music, Racism and Criminal Injustice

Sounds dangerous: Black music subcultures as victims of state regulation and social control

Harm and Disorder in the Urban Space: Social Control, Sense and Sensibility

SG3095 - Doing Criminology With Music

SG3095-PRD1-PER-ALV1

The course will consist of 10 X 2-hour sessions (a 1-hour lecture followed by a 1-hour seminar/workshop).
The weekly seminars/workshops will prepare students for the assessments. Students are asked to bring music selections and discuss them in class (preparation for Assessment 1), followed by a dedicated blog writing workshop that will guide students on practicing their blog writing skills (preparation for Assessment 2).

Doing Criminology With Music

Respect your peers, value their work and be conscious of the need to produce your own work by avoiding plagiarism and the use of generative AI

Values and attitudes

Develop a critical awareness of ‘crime’ as a socio-cultural and political phenomenon, rather than the exclusive domain of criminology, academic research or social policy 

Knowledge

Evaluate evidence of social harm/injustice from an intersectional perspective that does not neglect race, gender and class inequality 

Skills

Assess the importance of artistic, creative expression as a form of political intervention and a medium of social and cultural change

Demonstrate awareness of the ethical and political implications of criminal justice policy from the perspective of those who are victimised by it

Critically assess recent developments in sensory and cultural criminology 

Show respect and tolerance for other people in the module.

Evaluate issues of criminological importance through the medium of music

Practice ways of thinking that depart from standard, mainstream criminological and criminal justice definitions, understandings and responses