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2011/2 Provisional Module Catalogue - UNDER CONSTRUCTION & SUBJECT TO CHANGE
 Module Code: SOCM026 Module Title: LAW, SOCIETY & SOCIAL CONTROL
Module Provider: Sociology Short Name: SOCM34
Level: M Module Co-ordinator: JOHNSON PJ Dr (Sociology)
Number of credits: 15 Number of ECTS credits: 7.5
 
Module Availability

Spring Semester

 

 
Assessment Pattern

1 extended essay
Module Overview
Prerequisites/Co-requisites
Module Aims

This module explores how law and other modes of social control relate to the institutional and interactional orders of modern and late-modern societies. In so doing it examines how individuals and groups seek to influence the behaviours of others 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 dimensions of social life.
Learning Outcomes

upon completion of the course students can expect to:

  • · have a broad knowledge of the dynamic relationships between law, civil society and the State.
  • · students will be familiar with how the various mechanisms of social control are socially and culturally manifested in institutions and social practices.
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  • · 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.
Module Content

· The Idea of Social Control

· Histories of Social Control

· The Micro-Politics of Social Order and Control

· Discipline and Governmentality

· Perspectives on Criminal and Civil law

· Discretion and the Enforcement of Law

· Bio-surveillance and social order

· The social control of intimate/personal life

· Crime, The Media and Representation

· Logics of Contemporary Social Control
Methods of Teaching/Learning
Selected Texts/Journals

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

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

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

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

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

Taylor, R. (2000) Breaking Away from Broken Windows. Westview
Last Updated

April 2011