This module will provide a comprehensive introduction to how criminology has tried to understand the effects of globalisation on crime and criminal justice. Advanced theoretical understandings of global crime, and an analysis of diverse substantive forms of global crimes – e.g. drug and human trafficking, state crimes, war crimes and crimes against humanity – will be explored. The core questions that students will answer are: What is global crime? What political and historical dynamics determine the evolution, nature and definition of global crimes? And how do States respond?
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the module students should be able to:
Critically assess the impact of globalisation and other processes of social change on crime and criminal justice
Critically evaluate criminological theories and apply them to the analysis of contemporary social problems and institutions
Critically assess the impact of colonialism on historical and contemporary criminal justice practices and on the production and dissemination of criminological knowledges
