University of Essex

SC304-6-SP-CO:
Globalisation and Crime

The details

Year: 2023/24

Department: Sociology and Criminology

Campus: Colchester Campus

Term: Spring

Level: Undergraduate: Level 6

Status: Current

Start date: Monday 15 January 2024

End date: Friday 22 March 2024

Credits: 15

Last updated: 25 May 2023

Requisites for this module

Pre-requisites: SC204

Co-requisites: (none)

Pre and / or co-requisites: (none)

Prohibited modules: (none)

Key module (requisite for): (none)

Key module for

BA L620 Politics with Criminology,
BA L621 Politics with Criminology (Including Placement Year),
BA L622 Politics with Criminology (Including Year Abroad)

Module description

This module examines contemporary developments in criminology, crime and the governance of crime. Spring term focuses on international state crime and human rights.

Module aims

The module looks in detail at state crime, war crime, and human rights, focussing on historical and contemporary forms of mass atrocity, colonialism, genocide, torture and the international mechanisms designed to prevent and fix these large-scale social harms. Questions about the changing nature and function of contemporary states and the problems of balancing human rights with human security will be tackled throughout the module.

Module learning outcomes

To understand the contemporary developments in criminology, crime and the governance of crime, focusing in particular on the effects of globalisation, and the role of the states in the commission and facilitation of crimes.

Module information

Please click on the link below to view the Introduction video to SC304 Globalisation and Crime

https://moodle.essex.ac.uk/mod/page/view.php?id=668570

Learning and teaching methods

This module is taught as a weekly, two-hour seminar. All teaching will be face-to-face.

All readings, exercises and supplementary material for each week’s topic will be on Moodle –make sure you use the Moodle page!

You are expected to attend the lecture and do the provided reading each week before class.

Bibliography

Nicholas Gilmour and Tristram Hicks (2023) The War on Dirty Money. Bristol University Press. Available at: https://app.kortext.com/Shibboleth.sso/Login?entityID=https://idp0.essex.ac.uk/shibboleth&target=https://app.kortext.com/borrow/2350968.
Franko, K. (2020) Globalization & Crime. 3rd edn. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications. Available at: https://app.kortext.com/Shibboleth.sso/Login?entityID=https://idp0.essex.ac.uk/shibboleth&target=https://app.kortext.com/borrow/402893.
Aas, K.F. (2012) ‘“The Earth is one but the world is not”: Criminological theory and its geopolitical divisions’, Theoretical Criminology, 16(1), pp. 5–20. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1177/1362480611433433.
McGrew, A.G. (1998) ‘The Globalisation debate: Putting the advanced capitalist state in its place’, Global Society, 12(3), pp. 299–321. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/13600829808443168.
Franko, K. (2013) Globalization & Crime. 3rd edn. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications. Available at: https://app.kortext.com/Shibboleth.sso/Login?entityID=https://idp0.essex.ac.uk/shibboleth&target=https://app.kortext.com/borrow/402893.
Eski, Y. (2023) ‘We Destroy, Therefore We Are: A Criminological Imagination Against the Human Species (Conclusion)’, in A Criminology of the Human Species. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, pp. 99–104. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36092-3_7.
Zedner, L. (2007b) ‘Pre-crime and post-criminology?’, Theoretical Criminology, 11(2), pp. 261–281. Available at: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1362480607075851.
Melvyn Levitsky (no date) ‘Transnational Criminal Networks and International Security’, Syracuse Journal of International Law and Commerce, 30(2). Available at: http://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?public=false&handle=hein.journals/sjilc30&id=233.

The above list is indicative of the essential reading for the course.
The library makes provision for all reading list items, with digital provision where possible, and these resources are shared between students.
Further reading can be obtained from this module's reading list.

Assessment items, weightings and deadlines

Coursework / exam	Description	Coursework weighting
Coursework	Factsheet and critical analysis	100%
Exam	Main exam: In-Person, Open Book, 120 minutes during Summer (Main Period)
Exam	Reassessment Main exam: In-Person, Open Book, 120 minutes during September (Reassessment Period)

Additional coursework information

Please note that assessment information is currently showing for 2018-19 and will be updated in August 2019

Exam format definitions

Remote, open book: Your exam will take place remotely via an online learning platform. You may refer to any physical or electronic materials during the exam.
In-person, open book: Your exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer to any physical materials such as paper study notes or a textbook during the exam. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
In-person, open book (restricted): The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer only to specific physical materials such as a named textbook during the exam. Permitted materials will be specified by your department. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
In-person, closed book: The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may not refer to any physical materials or electronic devices during the exam. There may be times when a paper dictionary, for example, may be permitted in an otherwise closed book exam. Any exceptions will be specified by your department.

Your department will provide further guidance before your exams.

Overall assessment

Coursework	Exam
50%	50%

Reassessment

Coursework	Exam
50%	50%

Module supervisor and teaching staff

Supervisor: Dr Sobia Ahmad Kaker, email: s.kaker@essex.ac.uk.

Teaching staff: Dr Sobia Ahmed Kaker

Contact details: Jane Harper, Undergraduate Administrator (Years 2/3), email: socugrad@essex.ac.uk, telephone: 01206 873052

Availability

Available to incoming Essex Abroad / Exchange students: Yes

Available to Outside Option: Yes

Available to Audit: Yes

External examiner

Name: Dr Emily Gray

Institution: University of Warwick

Academic role: Assistant Professor of Criminology

Resources

Teaching materials: Available via Moodle

Lecture recording: Of 36 hours, 34 (94.4%) hours available to students:
0 hours not recorded due to service coverage or fault;
2 hours not recorded due to opt-out by lecturer(s), module, or event type.

Further information

Department website: Sociology and Criminology

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