SC311-6-SP-CO:
Childhood Innocence and Deviance
2024/25
Sociology and Criminology
Colchester Campus
Spring
Undergraduate: Level 6
Current
Monday 13 January 2025
Friday 21 March 2025
15
15 March 2024
Requisites for this module
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Children and young people have been socially constructed as both victims and villains. Using the criminological and sociological research, this module will introduce and critique some of the key social issues and concerns about young people. Topics will include children's rights, child protection, colonialism, the climate crisis and border control.
The aims of this module are:
- To chart shifting constructions of childhood and youth over time across history, sociology and allied disciplines.
- To consider how children and young people experience systems of youth justice, education, child protection, family intervention, and politics.
- To compare the intersectional experiences of children and young people in the UK and parts of the wider world.
By the end of this module, students will be expected to be able to:
- Apply key theoretical positions to a range of empirically grounded studies of children and young people.
- Explain how and why children and young people are variously positioned as offenders, victims, subjects, and citizens.
- Discuss the role of children and young people in the context of criminological topics such as colonialism, the climate crisis, and border control.
Please view the Introduction video to SC311 via Moodle.
This module will be delivered via:
- One 2-hour seminar each week.
In-person attendance is expected.
This module does not appear to have a published bibliography for this year.
Assessment items, weightings and deadlines
| Coursework / exam |
Description |
Deadline |
Coursework weighting |
| Coursework |
Purposeful Reading Assignment |
|
30% |
| Coursework |
Essay |
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70% |
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
Reassessment
Module supervisor and teaching staff
Dr Alejandra Diaz De Leon, email: alejandra.diazdeleon@essex.ac.uk.
Jane Harper, Student Administrator, Telephone: 01206 873052
E-mail: socugrad@essex.ac.uk
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Dr Emily Gray
University of Warwick
Assistant Professor of Criminology
Available via Moodle
Of 38 hours, 36 (94.7%) hours available to students:
2 hours not recorded due to service coverage or fault;
0 hours not recorded due to opt-out by lecturer(s), module, or event type.
* Please note: due to differing publication schedules, items marked with an asterisk (*) base their information upon the previous academic year.
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