CJ 1004 Crime and Morality
Faculty: Arts, Humanities & Soc Science
Department: Education & Social Science
Availability: University Main Campus (9)
Module Size: 1.00
Semester: (9) Semester 1 or Semester 2
Available as Elective: Yes
This module will enable students to develop an understanding of the concept of crime in relation to its
moral, political and cultural context. Students will be introduced to the problems of dealing with the
relevant theoretical debates in their historical perspective and they will acquire knowledge of the
arguments concerning the morality of obedience to law and of punishment for disobedience. 50%
coursework and 50% exam
CJ 1101 Crime and Society
Faculty: Arts, Humanities & Soc Science
Department: Education & Social Science
Availability: University Main Campus (9) Wigan & Leigh College (M) Furness College (J) Burnley
College (D)
Module Size: 1.00
Semester: (9) Semester 1 or (M) Semester 1 or (J) Semester 1 or (D) Semester 1
Available as Elective: No
This module aims to develop an enquiring and critical perspective concerning the nature and meaning
of crime, criminality, and crime problems in society. Students are encouraged to think critically about
'conventional' images of crime and criminality through a range of topics that allow students to become
familiar with criminological approaches to examining crime, criminality and crime problems in
contemporary society.
CJ 2003 Media and Crime
Faculty: Arts, Humanities & Soc Science
Department: Education & Social Science
Availability: University Main Campus (9)
Module Size: 1.00
Semester: (9) Semester 1 or Semester 2
Available as Elective: No
This module aims to explore the relationship between the rhetoric of crime and law in the mass media.
It provides an analysis of the relationship between crime and the media in contemporary culture.
Coursework weighting 20% Exam weighting 80%
CJ 2005 Drugs and Crime
Faculty: Arts, Humanities & Soc Science
Department: Education & Social Science
Availability: University Main Campus (9)
Module Size: 1.00
Semester: (9) Semester 1 or Semester 2
Available as Elective: No
This module introduces students to the history and prevalence of drug abuse in Britain. It will critically
examine and evaluate policies that have evolved from the 1960's onwards, as a growing response to
concerns about the levels of drug use and dependency in contemporary society and the treatment
systems that now exist within the criminal justices system. The module also considers changing
perceptions around drugs and criminality, the amount of crime allegedly committed by drug users to
finance their addiction and how these perceptions impact on drug abusers in terms of social exclusion
and citizenship. It will also consider drug importation and smuggling, and the wider issues of
international drug markets.
CJ 2016 Sex, Violence and Policing
Faculty: Arts, Humanities & Soc Science
Department: Education & Social Science
Availability: University Main Campus (9)
Module Size: 1.00
Semester: (9) Semester 1
Available as Elective: No
The module is designed to introduce major issues in contemporary policing to undergraduate
students. Students will be introduced to the key historical, epistemological and theoretical issues that
impact upon the understanding and investigation of the British police force. In addition, current issues
and cases will be used to illustrate and eveluate the theoretical ideas and arguments raised. The
course will be taught from a critical perspective.
CJ 2017 Popular Culture, Resistance and Social Control
Faculty: Arts, Humanities & Soc Science
Department: Education & Social Science
Availability: University Main Campus (9)
Module Size: 1.00
Semester: (9) Semester 2 or Semester 1
Available as Elective: No
This module will introduce students to the relationship between the law, regulatory discourses and
practices and popular culture within both historical and contemporary contexts. Through the utilization
of specific case studies the module will explore the dynamic relationship between aspects of law,
regualtion, discipline and popular activities, whether found in leisure pursuits, media discourses, youth
culture or forms of popular resistance and protest. The module will examine the ways in which popular
culture has become entwined within regulatory discourses and practices and how popular culture itself
plays a role in the control and discipline of groups within society, as well as constituting the means
through which such control and discipline can be subverted.
CJ 2018 Prostitution, Infanticide and Punishment
Faculty: Arts, Humanities & Soc Science
Department: Education & Social Science
Availability: University Main Campus (9)
Module Size: 1.00
Semester: (9) Semester 2 or Semester 1
Available as Elective: No
This module will examine some of the main issues in crime, victimisation and punishment involving
men, women and children during the nineteenth-century. It will seek to investigate such social and
criminological issues in-depth in order to give students an historical background to facilitate their
understanding of the situation of the situation in modern Britain.
CJ 2101 Critical Thinkers in Criminology
Faculty: Arts, Humanities & Soc Science
Department: Education & Social Science
Availability: University Main Campus (9)
Module Size: 1.00
Semester: (9) Semester 1
Available as Elective: No
This module will consider current debates and thinkers in criminology since the emergence of the
radical break in the 1970's. The insights, impact and legacy of interactionist and early
'deconstructionism' of the new deviancy theorists are explored and linked to the way criminological
theories in the 1970's and 1980's (left idealism/realism) attempted to develop and consolidate a critical
criminology in the UK. Drawing together the importance of a critical understanding of capitalism,
racism, ageism, sexuality, gender and homophobia the foundations of Marxist/Feminist and Anti-racist
'critical criminologies' are outlined and critically interrogated. The module concludes with a discussion
of contemporary thinkers and the important contribution of 'post-structuralism' and deconstructionism
and the critical responses to the problems engendered in the 'risk society'.
CJ 3013 Philosophies of Crime and Punishment
Faculty: Arts, Humanities & Soc Science
Department: Education & Social Science
Availability: University Main Campus (9)
Module Size: 1.00
Semester: (9) Semester 1
Available as Elective: No
This module will examine theories of crime and punishment by drawing on the philosophical literature
available, both from classical and contemporary secondary sources. It will seek to analyse and
evaluate examples of canonical textual material in depth whilst remaining sensitive to the broader
philosophical and historical contexts in which they are raised. The module will draw on the theme of
the relation between crime and punishment as raised in the content of other modules, and will,
particularly, extend the philosophical and historical range of theories covered elsewhere in the course.
CJ 3018 The State, Human Rights and State Crime
Faculty: Arts, Humanities & Soc Science
Department: Education & Social Science
Availability: University Main Campus (9)
Module Size: 1.00
Semester: (9) Semester 2 or Semester 1
Available as Elective: No
The module is designed to introduce major issues in state theory and human rights to undergratuate
students in Criminology and Criminal Justice. Students will be intoduced to key methodological,
epistemological and theoretical issues that impact upom the understanding and investigation of state
crime. In addition, current issues and cases will be used to illustrate and evaluate the theoretical ideas
and arguments raised. The course will be taught from a critical perspective.
CJ 3019 Gender/s, Crime and Criminal Justice
Faculty: Arts, Humanities & Soc Science
Department: Education & Social Science
Availability: University Main Campus (9)
Module Size: 1.00
Semester: (9) Semester 1
Available as Elective: No
This module will examine some of the main issues in offending, victimisation and punishment of men
and women in contemporary society. It will seek to investigate such social and criminological issues
in-depth in order to give students a comprehensive understanding of the ways in which gender affects
crime, deviance and the criminal justice process.
CJ 3023 Controversial Issues in Prison
Faculty: Arts, Humanities & Soc Science
Department: Education & Social Science
Availability: University Main Campus (9)
Module Size: 1.00
Semester: (9) Semester 1
Available as Elective: No
This module will introduce students to the development of key issues and debates regarding penal
policy today. the module will aim to encourage students to develop a critical understanding of
contemporary controversial issues and debates in the UK penal system. It will introduce students to
critical and abolitionist perspectives on imprisonment in order to: highlight the main controversial
issues in the UK prison system in the twenty-first century; problematise the nature and legitimacy of
current approaches in the penal estate to social problems; consider alternative non-punitive
approaches to social problems, moving beyond penal solutions
CJ 3101 Texts in Criminology
Faculty: Arts, Humanities & Soc Science
Department: Education & Social Science
Availability: University Main Campus (9)
Module Size: 1.00
Semester: (9) Semester 1
Available as Elective: No
The module will be devoted to the detailed analysis and evaluation of three texts, each of which is
recognised as having exerted significant influence within the discipline. These texts will be subjected
to a number of different interpretative approaches.
CJ 4001 The Criminological Imagination
Faculty: Arts, Humanities & Soc Science
Department: Education & Social Science
Availability: University Main Campus (9)
Module Size: 1.00
Semester: (9) Semester 1
Available as Elective: No
The module aims to give students a challenging and critical understanding of the relationship(s)
between criminological knowledge and the differing regimes of power that produce and maintain such
knowledge. It will seek to highlight how such knowledge/power produces specific 'criminological'
objects which in turn become objects of social discipline regulation and control. Students/practitioners
will be encouraged to think critically and systematically about their own research activities and
practices and in so doing reflect on any assumptions that might be said to limit their 'criminological
imagination'.
CJ 4006 Punishment, Community and Justice
Faculty: Arts, Humanities & Soc Science
Department: Education & Social Science
Availability: University Main Campus (9)
Module Size: 1.00
Semester: (9) Semester 1
Available as Elective: No
To explore the relationship between justice, punishment and community. To consider the penal
responce to particular groups with commuinity (women; members of minority ethnic groups; young
offenders; foreign offenders). To analyse prison as a community and the status of prisoners as
members of the community. To analyse theories, policies and practices of 'community justice' and
community penalties.