Global Perspectives on Crime and Crime Control

• Credit value: 30 credits at Level 7
• Convenor: Sappho Xenakis 
• Assessment: a 4000-word essay (100%)

This module offers an interdisciplinary exploration of the ways in which burgeoning of global exchanges across political, economic and social realms have influenced and are continuing to shape criminal justice and law enforcement policies and practices at international and national levels.

Key themes addressed are:

• the effects of worldwide flows of communication, trade and people, upon levels and patterns of crime and crime control in international and national settings
• the strengths and limitations of comparative international analysis in helping to identify the causes of and solutions to challenges posed by crime and crime control in international and national arenas
• the importance of political concerns in determining the substantive scope and effective reach of international co-operation and intervention to combat crime.

By the end of this module, you will:

• have an appreciation of the importance of global, comparative and transnational perspectives to understanding international and national trends in crime and crime control
• be able to recognise and engage with the political considerations that mediate international and transnational criminal justice and law enforcement policies and practices
• have been introduced to key literature and debates in the field.