SP30361: Border criminology
[Page last updated: 03 June 2024]
| Academic Year: | 2024/25 |
| Owning Department/School: | Department of Social & Policy Sciences |
| Credits: | 6 [equivalent to 12 CATS credits] |
| Notional Study Hours: | 120 |
| Level: | Honours (FHEQ level 6) |
| Period: |
- Semester 1
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| Assessment Summary: | CW 100% |
| Assessment Detail: |
- Coursework 100% (CW 100%)
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| Supplementary Assessment: |
- SP30361A - Reassessment 100% (where allowed by programme regulations)
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| Requisites: |
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| Learning Outcomes: |
By the end of this unit students will be able to:
- Discuss and analyse the relationship between crime and migration, criminal justice and migration control;
- Understand and explain key concepts such as national sovereignty, citizenship, globalisation and migration;
- Assess the ways in which systems of criminal justice are increasingly converging with systems of immigration control;
- Assess the differential impact of migration control on particular groups (e.g. nationality/citizenship, race/ethnicity, gender, class);
- Understand and explain key institutions and practices in border criminology (e.g. immigration removal centres, deportation);
- Use and critically evaluate academic research from different disciplines relating to border criminology.
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| Aims: | This unit explores the relationship between crime and migration, criminal justice and migration control. It is concerned with how sovereign nation states attempt to control their borders under conditions of mass mobility and globalisation, and the implications of this for both citizens and non-citizens. The unit will cover the history and politics of migration, focusing on Western Europe and North America, and examine different theoretical accounts of membership and belonging. Sessions will cover issues such as policing migration, imprisoning foreign nationals, immigration detention and deportation, drawing on theoretical work and empirical research in different disciplines.
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| Content: | Among other things, the unit will cover:
- The history and politics of migration, focusing on Western Europe and North America;
- An introduction to border criminology and 'crimmigration' around the globe;
- Theories of sovereign nation states, citizenship, globalization and migration;
- Policing and migration;
- The imprisonment of foreign nationals;
- Immigration detention;
- Deportation;
- Contemporary debates over criminal justice and migration control.
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| Course availability: |
SP30361 is Optional on the following courses:
Department of Social & Policy Sciences
- UHSP-AFB22 : BSc(Hons) Criminology (Year 3)
- UHSP-AKB22 : BSc(Hons) Criminology with Year long work placement (Year 4)
- UHSP-AFB16 : BSc(Hons) Social Policy (Year 3)
- UHSP-AKB16 : BSc(Hons) Social Policy with Year long work placement (Year 4)
- UHSP-AFB05 : BSc(Hons) Social Sciences (Year 3)
- UHSP-AKB05 : BSc(Hons) Social Sciences with Year long work placement (Year 4)
- UHSP-AFB04 : BSc(Hons) Sociology (Year 3)
- UHSP-AKB04 : BSc(Hons) Sociology with Year long work placement (Year 4)
- UHSP-AFB10 : BSc(Hons) Sociology and Social Policy (Year 3)
- UHSP-AKB10 : BSc(Hons) Sociology and Social Policy with Year long work placement (Year 4)
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Notes: - This unit catalogue is applicable for the 2024/25 academic year only. Students continuing their studies into 2025/26 and beyond should not assume that this unit will be available in future years in the format displayed here for 2024/25.
- Courses and units are subject to change in accordance with normal University procedures.
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