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Introduction to Criminology Module 1: Text: Introducing Criminology by Coleman and Norris
Crime, the criminal and criminology
• What is crime and what is criminology
• The legalistic position
• Crime as violation of human rights
• Crime as social construction
• A historical background, (which covers: the classical school, the moral statisticians, the Italian positive school, and the British context.)
Approaches to criminology
• Physical characteristics of crime
• The new biology of crime
• Psychological approaches
• The revival of approaches locating the source of the crime in the individual.
A Broader Vision of Crime
• Environmental criminology
• White collar crime
• Control theory
• Interactionism, labelling and moral panics
• Radical criminologies (including post-modern and Feminist perspectives)
Introduction to Criminology Module 2: Text: Introducing Criminology by Coleman and Norris
Thinking about serial Killers.
• Defining serial murder
• Types of serial murder
• Understanding serial murder: the psychology, biology and sociology of the serial killer.
Key issues in Criminal Justice
• Definitions and delivery
• Enforcement, prevention and detection
• The police role
• Due process and deviancy
• Crime control
CCTV
• Crime prevention
• The rise of cctv
• What is meant by crime and how can it be measured
• Does cctv, crime discrimination
Criminology Module 3: Text: Textbook on Criminology by Katherine S Williams
• Definitions, terminology and the criminal process
• The judicial process
• Public conceptions and misconceptions of crime
• Media hype and the effects on
• The criminal
• The extent of crime, official and unofficial calculations
• The recording of crime
• Victims survivors and victimology
• The fear of crime
Criminology Module 4: Text: Textbook on Criminology by Katherine S Williams
• Influences of physical factors and genetics on criminalities
• Influence of biochemical factors and the nervous system on the criminality
• Insanity and criminal law
• Nutritional effects on biochemical imbalances.
• Psychological and psychoanalytical theories of criminalities
• The criminal personality
• Mental disorder and criminalities
• The link between crime and learning
Criminology Module 5: Text: Textbook on Criminology by Katherine S Williams
• The sociology of criminality
• Environmental effects on crime
• Subcultural theories
• Control theories
• Labelling behaviours
• Conflicting theories of criminology
Criminology Module 6: Text: Textbook on Criminology by Katherine S Williams
• Criminology and realism the cause of crime
• Biological theories of crime
• Sex role theories of crime
• Positivist explanations of female criminality
• Feminist and gender issues
• Terror and state violence
• Terrorisms motives
• Governance, risk and globalisation theories
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