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Criminology and Crime Cultures – (M.Sc.)
University of Portsmouth
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
| Location: | Portsmouth / United Kingdom / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 12 months | Start Date: | September |
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| Languages: | English | ||
Location of University of Portsmouth
This course focuses on aspects such as representations of crime and criminals in the news media and popular culture including film, television and literature. It also examines crime from an experiential perspective by looking at the emotion and spectacle of crime and deviance from the point of view of offenders and victims, with a particular focus on political and popular discourse. Also examined are contemporary criminological theories relating to late modernity, transgression, control and regulation.
Through the choice of options students will have the opportunity to consider aspects such as criminal myths, subcultures including those surrounding erotica and sex, drugs or music, cinematic representations of crime, detective fiction, conflict cultures in relation to emotional aspects such as forgiveness and reconciliation and the seductions of crime and deviance. Students will therefore be able to explore issues such as: Why do people commit crimes? How does it feel to commit a crime? What is the relationship between crime and the media? How does television and cinema portray crime and criminals? What myths have arisen around the subject of crime? Why, for example, do we routinely refer to serial murderers as monsters? What role do the media play in conflict situations such as wars and terrorism? What are criminal styles? To what extent should we understand deviance in relation to tribes and sub cultures such as `chavs´? When and why is crime viewed as a spectacle?
This programme is suitable to students who may have completed studies in criminology and criminal justice. Such people may wish to develop and extend their understanding of crime and culture, criminological theory and social theory as it relates to contemporary issues and debates. Equally students who have studied sociology, media, social theory, cultural studies and similar subjects may also find this course provides them with an opportunity to supplement their existing knowledge with matters that relate to cultural perspectives such as media representation, the experience of crime and criminological theorising around matters of social control and social regulation.
Contents
The specific programme aims are
* To enable students to examine critically various crime cultures from both an offender and criminal justice agency perspective.
* To develop students´ understanding of the experiential perspective of crime - i.e. experiencing criminality first hand.
* To develop students´ ability to analyse crime from a cultural perspective.
* To enable students to reach an understanding of crime from a range of cultural perspectives.
* To develop students´ understanding of contemporary criminological and social theories and their historical development.
* To enable students to critically examine different criminological social theories related to late modernity in considering transgression, control and regulation.
* To develop students critical understanding of competing values contained within criminological and social theories.
* To provide opportunities for students to study a range of criminological and social theories from a cultural perspective and to write a substantial piece of academic written work.
The available modes of study are
Full-time by attendance at the University of Portsmouth (12 months study)
This course focuses on the social construction and cultural meanings of crime and criminology and its contemporary condition. The course explores alternatives to conventional criminology and takes the student to exciting new areas that are currently emerging, therefore giving students the opportunity to be at the cutting edge of disciplinary development. Among the subjects studied will be the construction and representation of crime and criminals in the media and popular culture and their influence on the perception of crime. There will also be an emphasis on critiques of current criminological thinking with a view to examining subjects beyond mainstream criminology. Students attending the University are taught using a combination of lectures and seminars by academic staff based at the Institute of Criminal Justice Studies.
Course Structure
Core Units
* Postgraduate Information Literacy and Academic Skills (PILAS) (non-credit rated)
* Criminology (30 credits) OR Criminology´s Contemporary Condition (30 credits)
* Cultural Criminologies (30 credits)
* Research Methods and Research Management (30 credits)
* 15,000 word Dissertation (60 credits)
30 credits of Optional Units
* Criminal Myths (15 credits)
* Conflict and Culture (15 credits)
* Crime, Cinema and Criminology (15 credits)
* Subcultures (15 credits)
Please note that all Options are subject to minimum student numbers, and may not all be available.
IELTS
You are normally required to take an English Proficiency Test.
Most European Universities recognise the IELTS test.
Take testRequirements
A second-class honours degree in a relevant subject, or equivalent professional experience and/or qualifications.
English language proficiency at a minimum of IELTS band 6.5 with a minimum score of 6.5 in all individual components, or equivalent.
Language Proficiency
| Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE): | Grade C (Score: 60) |
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