Module code: SAC4012-B
This module aims to:
• Develop your awareness of the main issues, concepts and areas of knowledge within the field of criminology.
• Provide an outline of the history of the development of criminological theory
• Explain the relationship of criminological theory to the practices of the criminal justice system in the UK
Defining crime; psychology and crime; violent crime; history of criminology; forms of crime; theoretical perspectives on crime; gender and crime; ethnicity and crime; social class and crime; the mass media and crime; young people and crime; victimology.
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