2^nd Semester

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

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The module focuses on how law and other modes of social control relate to the ionstitutional and interactional orders of modern and late-modern societies.  In so doing, it examines how individuals and groups seek to influence the behaviours of other and are also subject to regulatory forces that shape their own conduct.  Students are encouraged to critically engage with the concept of social control and to reflect upon how it illuminates a number of seen but un-noticed dimesions of social life.

The learning outcomes of this module are:

·             Students will be familiar with how various mechanisms of social control are socially and culturally manifested in institutions and social practices

·             Students completing the course will have developed an appreciation for the complexities involved in studying the wider context of crime and the criminal justice system

·             The Idea of Social Control

·             Histories of Social Control

·             Discipline and Governmentality

·             Surveillance and Social Order

·             The Enforcement of Law

·             Morality, Law and Social Order

·             Law and the Body

·             The Social Control of Intimate/Personal Life

·             Crime, the Media and Representation

·             Logics of Contemporary Social Control

This module consists of 10 sessions that comprise lectures and seminar discussion

Essential reading

Innes, M. Understanding Social Control (Open University Press, 2002)

Background reading

Cohen, S. Visions of Social Control (Polity, 1985)

Garland , D. The Culture of Control ( Oxford University Press, 2001)

Foucault, M. Discipline and Punish (Penguin, 1977)

Hawkins, K. Law as Last Resort ( Oxford University Press, 2002)

Journals

Howard Journal of Criminal Justice

British Journal of Criminology

Criminal Justice Matters

Punishment and Society