There are no pre-requisites for this module to be added

Major criminological perspectives - Beccaria, Bentham and Classicism; Lombroso and early Individual Positivism; Merton and traditional structural theories; The Chicago School and the mixing of research methods; The Mertonian tradition and American subcultural theory; Radical and Marxist criminology; The British Subcultural theories; Psychology and the individual; Crime and the Right; The Left Realist critique; Late and Post Modern criminologies; Cultural criminology and the neglect of background factors.

Upon completion of this module you will be able to

LO1: Discuss the main theoretical perspectives in criminology.

LO2: Explore the application of criminological theory to examples of crime and deviance.

LO3: Identify the links between theory, research and policy.

LO4: Compare definitions of crime, for whom it is a problem, and the roles of the media and statistical sources.

LO5: Appreciate the contested nature of the main theoretical positions of sociological and psychological criminology.