Access to:
Blackboard
Powerpoint/OHP projection facilities
Internet and email
VCR/DVD playback facilities

An essay (50%) (3500 words)
A portfolio (50%) (3500 words)


Key Information Set:
100% coursework

Initially the module explores the history and comparative anthropology of drug use and abuse before opening out into a more general overview of aspects of transnational organised crime. It offers an assessment of social morality as it applies to drug use and related aspects of social life. It studies drug use and abuse in terms of factors such as deviance and conformity, crime and punishment, identity and community. It also explores police work and the control of the misuse of drugs in a range of social contexts and drug abuse in various spheres of social life (e.g. sport and "recreational" use). Drug use and abuse serve as a classic illustration of the consequences of the now transnational nature of organised crime. The second part of the module focuses more generally on how crime has become increasingly transnational and organised through a detailed examination of major organised criminal groups (e.g. Italian and Russian 'mafias'); the illegal trafficking of people, goods and services (e.g. drug trafficking); state and business crime; and state and non-state terrorism. It continues the theme of policing and legal regulation of harmful behaviours from the first part of the module by focusing on policing, justice and moral regulation at the global level.

Ass, K. (2007) Globalization and Crime. Sage.
Bewley-Taylor D. (2012) International Drug Control. Cambridge.
Edwards, A. & Gill, P. (ed.) (2006 2nd edn.) Transnational Organised Crime: the policy and politics of global crime. Routledge
Frazer S. & Moore. D. (eds) (2011) The Drug Effect. Cambridge.
Galeottie, Mark (ed.) (2005) Global Crime Today, Routledge
Glenny, Misha (2009) McMafia, John Murray
Lyman M. D. (2000) Practical Drug Enforcement. CRC Press.
McNight D. (2002) From Hunting to Drinking. Routledge
Reichel, P. (ed.) (2005) The Handbook of Transnational Crime and Justice. Sage
South N. (1998) Drugs: Cultures Controls and Everyday Life. Sage.
Waddington I. (2000) Sport Health and Drugs. Routledge.

Whole group lectures, supported by seminars/workshops. Seminars will support students' learning through encouraging students to engage with the major themes and ideas introduced in lectures and through promoting the further development of subject and other key skills. In addition, seminars will support and guide students in the use of independent study time in order to prepare for workshops, and in order to fulfil assessment requirements. Directed study schemes form an explicit part of the independent learning strategy, requiring students to work on particular materials, issues and concepts. Students are also encouraged to seek individual tutorial guidance to support their learning and/or to prepare for assessment as required.

Key Information Set:
20% scheduled learning and teaching activities comprising:
Lectures
Seminars
Formative assessments

80% guided independent learning activities comprising:
Guided reading and research
Personal tutorials
Preparation for scheduled sessions
Completion of assessment tasks
Exam practice and revision