- To critically analyse the forms of harm that state institutions and corporate entities are responsible for in Global South.

- To unpack the specific social and legal order surrounding state-corporate crime and harm in less-developed countries and regions.

- To assess the explanatory potential of theoretical frameworks developed in the Global North to understand the dynamics between states and corporations in peripheral regions.

- To investigate the role of regulation and politics in shaping state-corporate activities in contemporary developing nation states and regional supranational bodies.

(LO1) Conceptually grasp the distinction between social harm and crime in relation to state-corporate crime in the Global South; especially having an awareness of the potential inadequacy of legally defined notions of crime in capturing the nature of state and corporate harm.

(LO2) Appreciate and recognise a range of harms and crimes that corporations and states are responsible for in more impoverished regions; including environmental, consumer-based, employee-based and financial crimes/harms.

(LO3) Identify the specific economic, political and social conditions in the Global South under which states and corporations operate and compare them to the ones in the Global North.

(LO4) Be able to critically evaluate the wider socio-legal order, such as the desire to sustain high growth rates or unequal class relations, in generating or producing harmful and criminal processes.

(LO5) Identify and understand the influence of a range of political tensions and contradictions which influence the acceptance or resistance to state-corporate crime and harm, such as the role of activist movements and corporate lobby groups.

(S1) Information skills – Critical reading

(S2) Information skills – Information accessing

(S3) Critical thinking and problem-solving – Synthesis

(S4) Critical thinking and problem-solving – Critical analysis

(S5) Communication (oral, written and visual) – Academic writing

Lectures and seminars will introduce and explore the following:

-Conceptual distinctions between state-corporate crime, state crime, corporate crime and social harm.

-Efforts to construct state and corporate organised forms of harm as legal

-The tension between criminality and regulation as it is applied to injurious activities of powerful institutions.

-Case studies from across the world which provide tangible examples of environmental, consumer-based, employee-based and financial crimes/harms.

-Political pressures shaping the contours of criminality in relation to state and corporate crime including analysis of local resistance movements and the influence of party politics

-The articulation and influence of international human rights legislation

-The role of geopolitical allegiances and disputes

-Throughout the module specific case studies and the regional economic and political conditions in which they take place will be comp ared with cases from other regions to identify the local particularities and to critically evaluate the suitability of the theories developed in the Global North to analyse cases in the Global South.

Teaching Method 1 - Lecture
Description: The module teaching will be delivered through lectures and seminars. The purpose of lectures is to provide students with a broad understanding of each topic and to introduce key concepts. They will provide the foundations for students to develop their knowledge and understanding through independent study
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Teaching Method 2 - Seminar
Description: Seminars focus in detail on specific topics and enable students to engage in structured discussion and debate with other students. The discussions will be facilitated by the seminar tutor and will enable students to clarify their understanding of the readings they have undertaken. Seminars are an essential part of the learning process: they provide a forum for testing the understanding and ideas of the students and are invaluable in preparing them for the module assessment.
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