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2011/2 Provisional Module Catalogue - UNDER CONSTRUCTION & SUBJECT TO CHANGE
 Module Code: SOCM008 Module Title: CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
Module Provider: Sociology Short Name: SOCM32
Level: M Module Co-ordinator: TARLING R Prof (Sociology)
Number of credits: 15 Number of ECTS credits: 7.5
 
Module Availability

Spring Semester

 

 
Assessment Pattern

2 essays
Module Overview

This module is an advanced level course on criminal justice and the regulation of social control.

 

 
Prerequisites/Co-requisites

None

 

 
Module Aims

The module focuses on key elements of the criminal justice system: policing and the police; courts and sentencing; prisons; probation and community penalties.  It seeks to inform students about: the practical operation of the criminal justice system; the policies which regulate the operation of criminal justice in the Anglo-American jurisdiction; and the conceptualisation of the processes at work in criminal justice.

 

 
Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of the module students can expect to:

 

 

·             Be familiar with the principal institutions of the criminal justice system

 

 

·             Be acquainted with the effects of selected criminal justice policies

 

 

·             Understand the principal modes of analysing and conceptualising the CJS

 

 
Module Content

·             History and development of the criminal justice system

 

 

·             Policing, organisation, powers and accountability

 

 

·             Crime investigation and detection

 

 

·             Criminal procedure

 

 

·             Prosecution

 

 

·             Sentencing

 

 

·             Prisons

 

 

·             Probation and the management of offenders in the community

 

 

·             Youth justice

 

 
Methods of Teaching/Learning

20 hours comprising lectures and seminars

 

 
Selected Texts/Journals

Ashworth, A. and Redmayne, M. (2005) The Criminal Justice Process. 3rd Edition. Oxford University Press.

 

 

Maguire, M., Morgan, R. and Reiner, R. (Eds) (2007) The Oxford Handbook of Criminology. 4th Edition. Oxford University Press.

 

 

McConville, M. and Wilson, G. (Eds) (2002) The Oxford Handbook of the Criminal Justice Process. Oxford University Press.

 

 

Sanders, A. and Young, R. (2006) Criminal Justice. 3rd Editon. Oxford University Press.

 

 
Last Updated

April 2011