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SP52083: State crime, rights, and global justice

[Page last updated: 15 August 2024]

Academic Year: 2024/25
Owning Department/School: Department of Social & Policy Sciences
Credits: 10 [equivalent to 20 CATS credits]
Notional Study Hours: 200
Level: Masters UG & PG (FHEQ level 7)
Period:
Semester 1
Assessment Summary: CWES 100%
Assessment Detail:
  • Case study analysis (CWES 100%)
Supplementary Assessment:
Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
Requisites:
Learning Outcomes: On successful completion of this unit students will be able to:
  • Apply theoretically informed explanations of cases and episodes of state and global crime
  • Critically evaluate rights-based approaches to global justice
  • Compare and assess approaches for justice after state crime



Synopsis: Explore criminology from a global perspective.

You will explore questions of state crime and the impact of globalisation on crimes that have causes and solutions that cross borders. You will also critique historical and contemporary approaches to redress harm exploring dimensions, such as human-rights approaches, transitional justice, historical and (de)colonial injustice, international criminal law, activism, and social movements.

Content: The unit contains three core strands.
The first explores theoretical and empirical approaches to state and global crime via recent and historical cases.
The second strand explores the emergence and growth of rights-based approaches to global justice in theory and practice.
The third considers some of the dominant (and alternative) modes of redress and activism that respond to state and global crime.

Course availability:

SP52083 is Optional on the following courses:

Department of Social & Policy Sciences

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