Criminal Justice (Level 5)

• Credit value: 30 credits at Level 5
• Coordinator and lecturer: Elena Loizidou
• Assessment: either two 3000-word essays (50% each) or one 6000-word essay (100%)

How is criminal justice to be understood? This question endows us with the possibility of not only familiarising ourselves with the institutions and agencies within criminal justice but also with the possibility of critically articulating the ideological, political and social factors that underpin the criminal justice system in England and Wales. This option module does precisely this - it aims at familiarising you with the institutions, practices and agencies (ie policing, prison, sentencing, diversion) and issues that adversely affect the delivery of justice such as racism, homophobia and sexism.

By the end of this module, you will:

• have an understanding of the institutions and agencies of the criminal justice system along with specific issues that are pertinent to criminal justice debates
• be able to think critically about gender, race, sexuality, terrorism and punishment.

• Davies, M., Croall, H., Tyrer, J. Criminal Justice (London: Longman, 2015).
• McLaughlin, E. and Munchie, J. (eds) Controlling Crime (London: SAGE, 2001).
• McLaughlin, E. and Munchie, J. (eds) The Problem of Crime (London: SAGE, 2001).