Module Details |
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Title | THE PANOPTICON AND THE PEOPLE: DIGITAL APPROACHES TO THE HISTORY OF CRIME AND PUNISHMENT | ||
Code | SOCI328 | ||
Coordinator |
Dr Z Alker Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology Z.Alker@liverpool.ac.uk |
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Year | CATS Level | Semester | CATS Value |
Session 2020-21 | Level 6 FHEQ | Second Semester | 15 |
Aims |
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• To introduce students to social studies of crime, offending, and punishment from the eighteenth to the present. |
Learning Outcomes |
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(LO1) Ability to problematise narratives of crime and criminal justice, and view offending and punishment as products of particular social, cultural, economic and political contexts |
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(LO2) Be able to critically use historical evidence to answer contemporary criminological ‘What Works?’ questions and engage with criminological theory |
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(LO3) Employ and interrogate online criminal history datasets, and critically consider their advantages and limitations |
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(LO4) Practice a range of quantitative and qualitative digital methodologies and visualisation techniques including corpus linguistics, mapping, and record linkage. |
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(LO5) Analyse and present research for online (blog) and offline platforms (essay) |
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(LO6) Reflect on the ethical implications of researching and presenting historical material |
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(S1) Practical online research skills and evaluation of online data |
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(S2) Critical thinking and problem solving (critical analysis) |
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(S3) Communication (written and visual) - Academic writing (inc. referencing skills) |
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(S4) Understand and problematise narratives of crime and criminal justice, and view offending and punishment as products of particular social, cultural, economic and political contexts |
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(S5) Practice a range of digital methodologies and techniques |
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(S6) Organise and articulate ideas/arguments both in the blog, essay, and in informed contributions to discussions about the criminal justice system in the past and present |
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(S7) Critical thinking and problem solving (creative thinking) |
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(S8) Identify, summarise and comment upon different ways of approaching histories of crime, punishment, and criminal justice |
Syllabus |
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• The Panopticon and the People: Introduction to the History of Crime and Punishment • Problematising the Gaze: Using Virtual Reality to examine Theories of Imprisonment and Power • Offenders and the Life Course: Using Record Linkage and Prosopography in the Digital Age • Unlocking the Victorian Offender: Digitisation and Criminal Lives • The Real Artful Dodgers: Youth, Crime, and Imprisonment, 1780- Present. • Victims or Perpetrators? Female Offending in the Past, Present and Future • Mapping Criminal Mobilities: Peripatetic Offending in the Past and Present • Gang Crime: Gender, Violence, and Street Life in Liverpool and Manchester • Viral Victorians: Using the 19th Century Newspapers to explore the Garrotting Panics • The Roaring Twenties to the Naughty Nineties: Moral Panics and Substance Abuse • Conclusions: Digitisation and Crime History • Assessment Support Workshop |
Teaching and Learning Strategies |
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Teaching Method 1 - Lecture Teaching Method 2 - Seminar Skill/Other Attribute 1: Skill/Other Attribute 2: Skill/Other Attribute 3: Skill/Other Attribute 4: Skill/Other Attribute 5: Skill/Other Attribute 6: Skill/Other Attribute 7: Skill/Other Attribute 8: |
Teaching Schedule |
Lectures | Seminars | Tutorials | Lab Practicals | Fieldwork Placement | Other | TOTAL | |
Study Hours |
12 |
24 |
36 | ||||
Timetable (if known) | |||||||
Private Study | 114 | ||||||
TOTAL HOURS | 150 |
Assessment |
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EXAM | Duration | Timing (Semester) |
% of final mark |
Resit/resubmission opportunity |
Penalty for late submission |
Notes |
CONTINUOUS | Duration | Timing (Semester) |
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Resit/resubmission opportunity |
Penalty for late submission |
Notes |
Blog post on selected case study. There is a resit opportunity. Standard UoL penalty applies for late submission. This is not an anonymous assessment. Assessment Schedule (When) :Semester 1 | 2000 words | 50 | ||||
Essay There is a resit opportunity. Standard UoL penalty applies for late submission. This is an anonymous assessment. Assessment Schedule (When) :Semester 1 | 2000 words | 50 |
Recommended Texts |
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Reading lists are managed at readinglists.liverpool.ac.uk. Click here to access the reading lists for this module. |