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SO3025: CRIME AND SOCIAL JUSTICE (2023-2024)

Last modified: 23 Jul 2024 10:44


Course Overview

This course introduces students to the contemporary study of issues of crime and social justice and considers how they relate to individuals, communities, and sections of society. We adopt a critical criminological perspective in order to consider wider social harms, while analysing and reflecting on the criminal justice system and social justice interventions.

Course Details

Study Type Undergraduate Level 3
Term First Term Credit Points 15 credits (7.5 ECTS credits)
Campus Aberdeen Sustained Study No
Co-ordinators
  • Dr Karen Lumsden

What courses & programmes must have been taken before this course?

  • Master Of Arts In Criminology-Sociology
  • Programme Level 3

What other courses must be taken with this course?

None.

What courses cannot be taken with this course?

  • SO3525 Crime and Social Justice (Passed)

Are there a limited number of places available?

No

Course Description

This course introduces students to the contemporary study of crime and social justice, and how these relate to individuals, communities, and sections of society. It explores key themes such as social justice, social harm and ethics.

In this course we adopt a critical criminological perspective in order to widen the scope of our interest and understanding to include a variety of social harms in societies and globally (e.g. environmental harm, state crime, and white-collar crime). We explore the relationship between crime and justice, social, economic, and political power, and social inequalities. The course equips students with the skills and knowledge required in order to critically analyse and reflect on the criminal justice system and social justice interventions.


Contact Teaching Time

Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.

Teaching Breakdown

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Details, including assessments, may be subject to change until 30 August 2024 for 1st term courses and 20 December 2024 for 2nd term courses.

Summative Assessments

Exam

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 50
Assessment Weeks 19,20 Feedback Weeks

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Feedback

Students will be provided with their grades when these are released after the December exam diet – within 3 weeks of the exam. Written feedback is not provided for exams. However, individual students can request a meeting to discuss feedback on their exam script if required after receiving their grade.

Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
ConceptualAnalyseAs a result of this course students will learn to critically assess how theory and practice are interrelated in criminal justice and social interventions.
ConceptualAnalyseAs a result of this course students will be able to think creatively about the relationship between social justice, crime, and social harm in the field of criminology.
ConceptualUnderstandAs a result of this course students will have an awareness of a critical criminological approach to the study of crime.
FactualRememberAs a result of this course students will be familiar with the relationship between crime and social justice, and how these relate to the concepts of power and social inequality.

Essay

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 50
Assessment Weeks 13,14 Feedback Weeks 16,17

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Feedback

Feedback will be providing within three weeks of submission either in writing, in person, or online.

Word Count 1000
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
ConceptualAnalyseAs a result of this course students will learn to critically assess how theory and practice are interrelated in criminal justice and social interventions.
ConceptualAnalyseAs a result of this course students will be able to think creatively about the relationship between social justice, crime, and social harm in the field of criminology.
ConceptualUnderstandAs a result of this course students will have an awareness of a critical criminological approach to the study of crime.
FactualRememberAs a result of this course students will be familiar with the relationship between crime and social justice, and how these relate to the concepts of power and social inequality.

Formative Assessment

There are no assessments for this course.

Resit Assessments

Take Home Exam

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 100
Assessment Weeks 49,50 Feedback Weeks

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Feedback
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
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Course Learning Outcomes

Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
FactualRememberAs a result of this course students will be familiar with the relationship between crime and social justice, and how these relate to the concepts of power and social inequality.
ConceptualUnderstandAs a result of this course students will have an awareness of a critical criminological approach to the study of crime.
ConceptualAnalyseAs a result of this course students will learn to critically assess how theory and practice are interrelated in criminal justice and social interventions.
ConceptualAnalyseAs a result of this course students will be able to think creatively about the relationship between social justice, crime, and social harm in the field of criminology.

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