BSc (Hons) Criminology and Sociology modules
Policing and Social Control
Other modules on this course
Year 1 core modules
- Crime, Justice and Society
- Introduction to Social Theory 1
- Social Policies and Social Problems
- Study Skills for Sociologists
Year 2 core modules
and one optional module
- American Criminal Justice
- Families, Friendships and Contemporary Intimacies
- Managing Young People's Behaviour in Mainstream Education
- Policing and Social Control
- Safeguarding Children
- Sexual Violence, Sexual Crime
- Volunteering
- Women, Crime and the Criminal Justice System
- Youth and Childhood Identities
- Youth Cultures and Transitions
Final-year core modules
- Contemporary Issues in Social Theory
- Philosophies of Punishment
- Research Project
and one optional module
- Crime and Consumer Culture
- Drugs and Society
- Family Law
- Football, Culture and Society
- Independent Studies in the Social Sciences
- International Law
- Medical Law
- Mentoring
- Migration, Development and the Politics of Globalisation
- Race, Crime and Social Exclusion
- Responses to Special Educational Needs
- Terrorism: Criminological Perspectives
- Understanding Domestic and Sexual Violence
- Youth, Crime and Justice
Modules offered may vary.
This module explores the history and development of systems of control and policing society. It covers several key areas including the history and development of systems of social control, eg the shift from brutal punishment and torture to punishment that is seen as less brutal. You will also discuss the history and development of policing throughout the 19th and 20th centuries including the public police, private policing and community policing. Finally this module deals with the changing concerns about crime, anti-social behaviour and terrorism, examining the evolving control systems.