Policy Analysis - Crime & Justice - SPY00085M

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  • Department: Social Policy and Social Work
  • Credit value: 20 credits
  • Credit level: M
  • Academic year of delivery: 2022-23

Module will run

Occurrence Teaching period
A Autumn Term 2022-23

Module aims

This module will:

  • Introduce key concepts, techniques and theories employed in policy analysis
  • Explore the roles and inter-relationships of structures, institutions, actors and ideas in shaping criminal justice policy-making
  • Apply theoretical knowledge to the analysis of specific crime and justice related policies

Module learning outcomes

By the end of the module, students will:

Subject content

  • understand the role of economic, political, social and international factors in shaping policy
  • identify the complex issues surrounding the formation, implementation and evaluation of criminal justice policy
  • apply knowledge of the above to the analysis of crime and justice related policy

 

Academic and graduate skills

  • identify the complex issues surrounding the formation, implementation and evaluation of policies
  • appreciate the institutional and organizational contexts which shape the process by which policies are made

 

Other learning outcomes (if applicable)

  • Research and writing on abstract subject matters
  • Oral/written presentation skills and related techniques
  • Analysis of current socio-political affairs
  • Critical engagement with diverse information resources

Indicative assessment

Task % of module mark
Essay/coursework 100.0

Special assessment rules

None

Indicative reassessment

Task % of module mark
Essay/coursework 100.0

Module feedback

Written feedback using a standard marking pro-forma is provided within 4 weeks of submission.

Indicative reading

Policy Analysis

J. Hudson and Lowe, S (2009) Understanding the Policy Process: Analysing Welfare Policy & Practice

N. Yeates (2000) Globalisation and Social Policy. London: Sage.

D. Held and McGrew, A., Goldblatt, D. and Perraton, J. (1999) Global Transformations: Politics, Economic and Culture , Cambridge, Polity Press.

M. Barnett and Finnemore, M. (2004) Rules for the World: International Organisations in Global Politics; Cornell University Press.

 

Crime

M. Findlay, The Globalisation of Crime: Understanding Transitional Relationships in Context (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1999).

J. Muncie, Crime: Local and Global (Cullompton: Willan 2010).

D. Nelken, Comparative Criminal Justice and Globalization (Farnham: Ashgate 2011).

P. Andreas and E. Nadelmann, Policing the Globe: Criminalization and Crime Control in International Relations (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006).

J. Sheptycki (ed.), Transnational Organised Crime, 4 volumes (Los Angeles: Sage: 2014).

M. Natarajan, International Crime and Justice (New York: Cambridge University Press 2011).

P. Reichel, Handbook of Transnational Crime and Justice (Los Angeles: Sage 2013).