Advanced Criminological Theory
Advanced Criminological Theory takes seven recently emerged and now contemporary key areas of criminological debate and argument and seeks to facilitate engagement with these most current and emergent theoretical paradigms. You will have to show higher level knowledge and understandings of the contours of contemporary criminology and its theoretical proponents, culminating in their ability to analyse, apply and reflect on the relevance and application of these emergent paradigms to an area or topic of criminological interest for them. The lectures are set around themes and issues that deal with emergent topics and fields of interest, and the studied perspectives are clearly linked and cross over. During the course of the module, you will deal not only with the theory, but consider emergent areas and topics that are at the centre of the discipline and which will be combined with discussion of emerging cases and examples. These can include:Terrorism and Domestic Extremism, Homicide, Borders and Immigration, People Trafficking, Sex Trafficking, global warmings, sports violence in MMA and Ice Hockey, the V W emissions fraud, the case of Trafigura, the Grenfell Fire, School shootings, wildlife crime, the rise of Trump and the Violence in Charlottesville, plastic pollutions of the Oceans, Firearms Trafficking and New Novel Psychoactive Substances. The contemporary topics will be revisited each year.
Module code: SOCY70518