Browse Hierarchy CRIM5005: Globalisation and Crime

This module explores areas of crime and criminal justice beyond the nation-state. The module adopts a comparative criminology approach and locates the discussion of specific topics and themes within theories of modernity, theories of crime, deviance and social response, and global theories of crime and criminal justice in relation to socio-demographic and geo-political data. In this module students will use comparative data to understand cross-national patterns of criminal behaviour. Examine comparative criminological responses to human rights violations (e.g. human trafficking; drugs; war crimes; organised crime). Analyse and compare crime(s), crime patterns and responses to these in different parts of the world to identify common variables within criminological theory and test concepts and ideas in multiple socio-cultural environments.