SC311-6-SP-CO:
Childhood Innocence and Deviance
2023/24
Sociology and Criminology
Colchester Campus
Spring
Undergraduate: Level 6
Current
Monday 15 January 2024
Friday 22 March 2024
15
07 November 2023
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, cybercrime, drug use and misuse as well as youth deviance and crime.
The aims of this module include:
1. To chart shifting constructions of childhood and youth over time across history, sociology and allied disciplines.
2. To consider how children and young people experience systems of youth justice, education, child protection, family intervention and politics.
3. To compare the intersectional experiences of children and young people in the UK and parts of the wider world.
At the end of the module, students will be able to apply key theoretical positions to a range of empirically-grounded studies of children and young people. They will be able to explain how and why children and young people are variously positioned as offenders, victims, subjects and citizens.
Please use the link below to view the Introduction video to SC311
https://moodle.essex.ac.uk/mod/page/view.php?id=668571
Teaching approach
Most modules in Sociology are divided into lectures of around 50 minutes and a class of around 50 minutes. Some are taught as a 2hr seminar, and others via a 50-minute lecture and 2-hr lab.
This module, SC311-SP, will include a range of activities to help you and your teachers to check your understanding and progress.
The lectures provide an overview of the substantive debates around the topic of the week, while the classes will give you the opportunity to reflect on your learning and actively engage with your peers to develop your understanding further. The weekly classes will take place face-to-face (unless there is a change in the current COVID safety measures). You are strongly encouraged to attend the classes as they provide an opportunity to talk with your class teacher and other students. The classes will be captured and available via Listen Again. However, if you want to gain the most you can from these classes it is very important that you attend and engage. Please note that the recording of classes is at the discretion of the teacher.
Please note that you should be spending up to eight hours per week undertaking your own private study (reading, preparing for classes or assignments, etc.) on each of your modules (e.g. 32 hours in total for four 30-credit modules).
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Nandy, A. (1984) ‘Reconstructing Childhood: A Critique of the Ideology of Adulthood’,
Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, 10(3), pp. 359–375. Available at:
https://doi.org/10.1177/030437548401000303.
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Viviana A. Zelizer (1998) ‘Chapter 4: From Useful to Useless: Moral Conflict over Child Labor’, in
The Children’s Culture Reader. NYU Press, pp. 81–94. Available at:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt9qfn8r.8.
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Allison James (no date) ‘Giving Voice to Children’s Voices: Practices and Problems, Pitfalls and Potentials’,
American Anthropologist, 109(2). Available at:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/4496640.
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Albisetti, J.C. (2019) ‘National Education Systems - Europe’, in J.L. Rury and E.H. Tamura (eds)
The [Oxford] Handbook of the History of Education. Oxford University Press, pp. 148–163. Available at:
https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/34437/chapter/292230926.
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Brockliss, L.W.B. and Sheldon, N. (2012)
Mass education and the limits of state building, c. 1870-1930. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Available at:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/universityofessex-ebooks/detail.action?docID=868351.
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 |
Deadline |
Coursework weighting |
| Coursework |
Purposeful Reading Assignment |
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30% |
| Coursework |
Essay |
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70% |
| Exam |
Main exam: In-Person, Open Book, 120 minutes during Summer (Main Period)
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| Exam |
Reassessment Main exam: In-Person, Open Book, 120 minutes during September (Reassessment Period)
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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 36 hours, 36 (100%) hours available to students:
0 hours not recorded due to service coverage or fault;
0 hours not recorded due to opt-out by lecturer(s), module, or event type.
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