New Set of Questions for August / September
1) Discuss the theoretical developments of Queer Criminology?
2) Examine the role of green criminology in understanding environmental harm?
3) Discuss the positive contributions of feminist perspectives to Criminology.
4) Examine the work of Durkheim in understanding crime.
5) Discuss the theoretical developments of Marxist theory in relation to crime and deviance.
6) Examine the developments of the abolitionist movement in relation to imprisonment and consider the main arguments put forward for prison abolition
Welcome to Gender, Crime and Justice,
This module aims to provide a comprehensive and critical understanding of the relationship between gender, crime and justice. The module will explore the sociological and criminological approaches to the study of deviance, gender and crime in contemporary society. You will be presented with a range of theoretical and conceptual issues around the theme of gender, crime and justice including feminist writing on the meaning and relevance of gender. The course will highlight some of the key issues when exploring crime, victimisation and criminal justice in relation to gender. The content will draw on relevant policy material in this field.
Beastly Sociology SO345
This module will investigate:
- the significance of animals to society and culture - both historically and contemporaneously - and how changing relations between society and nature, human and animal have been conceptualised sociologically;
- the philosophical and moral underpinnings of social and cultural attitudes and practices towards animals and their implications for animal welfare and animal rights;
- how human-animal relations relate to social change and the way non-human animals are incorporated into social relations;
- the ways in which society, social action, agency and notions of the self, have been understood and ask whether they can be mobilised to analyse the place(s) of animals in society and culture;
- the implications for sociology of post-humanist critiques of anthropocentric understandings of the world.
This module explores the place of animals in society and culture and how this varies cross-culturally and over time. It addresses the importance of animals to the organisation and development of society, exploring notions of 'co-evolution', 'domestication' and 'human exceptionalism' and the philosophical and moral underpinnings of human-animal relations. Animal studies, as a newly-emerging interdisciplinary area of study, draws on different theoretical traditions to make sense of its subject matter. Sociology has been particularly slow to take up the challenge of studying animals and the module will investigate why this should be so and whether studying animals poses a particular problem for sociology as a discipline. It will consider different aspects of human-animal relations and how taking animals into consideration might challenge our understandings of society.
Learning outcomes
By the end of the module you should be able to:
- Explain how relations between humans and animals have changed over time
- Evaluate different ways of theorising human-animal relations
- Critically assess the material and cultural significance of animals in different types of society
- Research, using a range of methods, the key social, political and ethical issues influencing the position of animals in contemporary societies