This module gives you the opportunity to engage with key debates related to working in the criminal justice system. Looking at the roles and responsibilities of people working in the criminal justice system, it relates key sociological concepts to the experience of working or volunteering in the criminal justice system. It is structured around specific occupations and there will be contributions from practitioners.
Occurrence | Teaching cycle |
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A | Spring Term 2022-23 |
Having completed the module, students should be able to:
Teaching will be delivered in a three hour workshop.
Week 2: *Police officers
Week 3: Police officers
Week 4: Volunteers
Week 5: Prison Officers
Week 6: *Prison Managers
Week 7: Community development workers
Week 8: Social work and healthcare professionals
Week 9: Probation officers
*Possible alumni/guest speaker
Themes to be considered in relation to these roles: discretion; recruitment and representation; emotional labour; managerialism; identification of ‘clients’; care vs discipline; privatisation, occupational culture, gender.
Task | Length | % of module mark |
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Essay/coursework Assessment 1 - Poster |
N/A | 25 |
Essay/coursework Assessment 2 - 3000 word essay |
N/A | 75 |
None
Formative assessment is conducted via peer and staff feedback on an analysis of samples of academic posters, in preparation for producing an academic poster for summative assessment.
Task | Length | % of module mark |
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Essay/coursework Assessment 1 - Poster |
N/A | 25 |
Essay/coursework Assessment 2 - 3000 word essay |
N/A | 75 |
Oral feedback is provided in seminars particularly via formative work
Feedback on summative work is provided in written format and additional oral feedback (based on the written feedback) is provided by personal supervisors.
Bennett, J., Crewe, B. and Wahidin, A. (Eds.) (2008) Understanding Prison Staff. Cullompton: Willan Publishing
Bennett, J., (2016). The working lives of prison managers : global change, local culture and individual agency in the late modern prison, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan.
Cockcroft, T. (2013). Police culture: themes and concepts. Abingdon: Routledge
Crawley, E, (2004) Doing Prison work. Cullompton, Devon; Willan
Gelsthorpe, L., Padfield, N. and Padfield, N., (2003). Exercising discretion : decision-making in the criminal justice system and beyond, Cullompton : London: Willan Publishing ; Routledge.
Martin, S.E. and Jurik, Nancy C., (2007). Doing justice, doing gender: women in legal and criminal justice occupations 2nd ed., Thousand Oaks, Calif.; London: Sage Publications.
Mawby, R.C. and Worrall, Anne, (2013). Doing probation work: identity in a criminal justice occupation, New York: Routledge.
Norman, A.E. and Parrish, Alan, (2002). Prison nursing, Oxford: Blackwell Science.