SP52087: The architecture of criminal 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 2
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| Assessment Summary: | CWES 100% |
| Assessment Detail: |
- Independent Research Essay (CWES 100%)
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| Supplementary Assessment: |
- Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
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| Requisites: |
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| Learning Outcomes: |
On successful completion of the unit, students will be able to:
- Demonstrate an understanding of how the design, location and architecture of criminal justice facilities reflects and realises ideas about crime and justice
- Apply criminological theories and concepts to understand the likely and/or demonstratable effects of different decisions about design and architecture on users of spaces
- Demonstrate a critical awareness of the limitations of design and architecture in attending to the problems of criminal justice
- Apply design thinking to assess the criminal justice system as an edifice and politico-social structure
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| Synopsis: | Explore how criminal justice facilities are designed and how criminological thinking might help us reimagine the architecture of criminal justice.
You will examine a range of criminal justice facilities - including courts, prisons, and police stations - and explore how their location and design embody particular ideas about crime and justice. You will explore what design thinking tells us about the organisation of criminal justice and how it relates to wider issues concerning justice reform.
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| Content: | This unit will cover topics such as:
- Historical trends in the location, design and architecture of key criminal justice facilities
- The connection between the location, design and architecture of criminal justice facilities and prevailing ideas about crime and justice
- The potential of architecture and design to shape political and public opinion about the purpose of prisons and other justice spaces
- Practical, hands-on design sessions to apply criminological understanding to the design and architecture of criminal justice facilities
- Design thinking, and its application to criminology
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| Course availability: |
SP52087 is Optional on the following courses:
Department of Social & Policy Sciences
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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.
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