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LAW10570

Academic Year 2024/2025

Crime And Society (LAW10570)

Subject:
Law
College:
Social Sciences & Law
School:
Law
Level:
1 (Introductory)
Credits:
5
Module Coordinator:
Dr Jonathan Ilan
Trimester:
Autumn
Mode of Delivery:
On Campus
Internship Module:
No
How will I be graded?
Letter grades

Curricular information is subject to change.

This 5 credit module explores the relationship between law and society, in particular looking at questions of crime and criminalisation. The module explores why some behaviours are considered criminal, while others are not by reflecting on the ways in which society is structured and organised.
The module introduces debates about the ways in which social and criminological knowledge is developed and applied. There is exploration around the relationship between social change and changing mores.

About this Module

Learning Outcomes:

Having completed this module students will be able to:
Discuss key ideas in relation to the study of law and society and sociological/critical criminology
Identify how social structures affect the assignment of criminal identity
Understand the different forms of criminological knowledge
Determine how coloniality underpins criminological knowledge and how the discipline might be decolonised
Explore how social change can lead to a change in legal provisions

Indicative Module Content:

Thinking about law and society
Statistics, society and crime
Social control and governmentality
Understanding crime (qualitative)
The sociology of deviance
The critical turn
Social harm and green criminology
Decolonising criminology

Student Effort Hours:
Student Effort Type Hours
Lectures

24
Tutorial

4
Autonomous Student Learning

100
Total

128

Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
This module is delivered face to face with additional online activities to be completed. Students will be assigned work to prepare most weeks. This may be reading, watching short videos, completing online exercises, reflection and preparing to debate, or preparing written work. Students are expected to engage with all teaching and learning activities; this will be essential for keeping up with the continuous assessment on the module.

Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Not applicable to this module.


Module Requisites and Incompatibles
Not applicable to this module.
 

Assessment Strategy
Description Timing Component Scale Must Pass Component % of Final Grade In Module Component Repeat Offered
Exam (In-person): Written Examination 2 hours End of trimester
Duration:
2 hr(s)
 Graded No
100
 No

Carry forward of passed components
No
 

Resit In Terminal Exam
Spring No
Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 

Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment
• Self-assessment activities

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

Not yet recorded.

Name Role
Rosemary Mangan Tutor

Timetabling information is displayed only for guidance purposes, relates to the current Academic Year only and is subject to change.
Autumn Lecture Offering 1 Week(s) - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12 Thurs 14:00 - 15:50
Autumn Tutorial Offering 1 Week(s) - 4, 6, 9, 11 Tues 13:00 - 13:50
Autumn Tutorial Offering 2 Week(s) - 4, 6, 9, 11 Tues 14:00 - 14:50
Autumn Tutorial Offering 3 Week(s) - 3, 5, 7, 10 Tues 13:00 - 13:50
Autumn Tutorial Offering 4 Week(s) - 3, 5, 7, 10 Tues 14:00 - 14:50
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