Module code: SAC4011-B
The module aims to:
• Provide an overview of both 19th-century and 20th century approaches to crime and criminal behaviour
• Provide a coherent understanding of changing offending patterns over time.
• Provide knowledge of the core developments in crime and punishment in the UK since 1834.
• Provide an understanding of the social and political origins of modern approaches to crime and punishment in the UK.
Victorian approaches to crime; the evolution of the UK prison system; the evolution of UK patterns of punishment; changing crime patterns over time; evolution of alternatives to custody; the links between post-war social change and crime patterns; the main public policy approaches to crime since 1945; public policy and mass media debates about the causes of crime.
Download the PDF for A Critical History of Crime and Punishment