1. On completion of this module you will be able to produce a high end written analysis of the contribution of a contemporary criminological perspective to a crime and criminal justice topic that shows wider knowledge and understanding and learning on the field of contemporary academic theoretical criminology Analysis
Communication
Learning
Enquiry

2. On completion of this module you will be able to reflect extensively on the contribution of one contemporary criminological perspective to an important and pressing social issue, and reflect on the strengths and limitations of the perspective in question to the crime issue under discussion
Reflection

3. On completion of this module you will be able to consider the application of the perspective under discussion to issues of policy and praxis in relation to crime control and regulation, and consider the potential moral and ethical issues and counter views and perspectives that arise
Application

Students will be required to write a 4,000 word assignment where they select an emergent theoretical perspective from the taught content and relate it to a criminological issue – it might be a type of crime, a case study of a particular instance of crime, a particular representation in the media, a pertinent news story, an emerging official response such as a new policing or prison initiative.

They will combine the criminological perspective with the topic, take a holistic approach and write a 4,000-word article. That 4,000 words should also contain a title, 4-5 key words, and be referenced in the Harvard style.

The assessment will be based on submission to an academic journal format, hopefully aiding students to develop a written form and style that is in keeping with the conventions of academic criminology, which may also longer-term assist in the launching of a student based journal at Staffs featuring work by graduate students, and adding to the research culture at Staffordshire University, and engage those seeking professional roles to better understand writing for academic audiences.

Advanced Criminological Theory takes seven recently emerged and now contemporary key areas of criminological debate and argument and seeks to facilitate students engagement with these most current and emergent theoretical paradigms, students will have to show higher level knowledge and understandings of the contours of contemporary criminology and its theoretical proponents, culminating in their ability to analyse, apply and reflect on the relevance and application of these emergent paradigms to an area or topic of criminological interest for them. The criminological concepts covered on the module are

• Cultural Criminology and Deviant Leisure Perspectives
• Ultra-Realist Criminology
• Zemiology
• Criminology of the Global South and Subaltern Studies
• Green and Environmental Criminology
• Life Course Criminology and Desistance Studies
• Big Data and Contemporary Administrative Criminology

The lectures are set around themes and issues that deal with emergent topics and fields of interest, and the studied perspectives are clearly linked and cross over, but during the course of the module, participants will deal not only with the theory, but consider emergent areas and topics that are at the centre of the discipline and which will be combined with discussion of emerging cases and examples. These can include:

Terrorism and Domestic Extremism, Homicide, Borders and Immigration, People Trafficking, Sex Trafficking, global warmings, sports violence in MMA and Ice Hockey, the V W emissions fraud, the case of Trafigura, the Grenfell Fire, School shootings, wildlife crime, the rise of Trump and the Violence in Charlottesville, plastic pollutions of the Oceans, Firearms Trafficking and New Novel Psychoactive Substances.

The contemporary topics will be revisited each year.

For 300 hours, of which 26 will be class contact delivered in lecture/seminar format and 274 hours will be guided independent study using online forum.

• Boukli, A and Kotzé, J (eds) (2018) Zemiology: Reconnecting Crime and Social Harm, Bristol: Policy

• Brisman, A and South, N. (eds) (2016). Green Cultural Criminology: Constructions of Environmental Harm, Consumerism, and Resistance to Ecocide, London, Routledge

• Carrington, K and Hogg, R., Scott, J and Hozzo, M. (2018). The Palgrave Handbook of Criminology and the Global South, London: Palgrave

• Carrington, K,. Hogg,. R. Scott, J., Sozzo, M., and Walters, R (2018) Southern Criminology, London: Routledge

• Ferrell, J., Hayward, K., and Young, J. (2015) Cultural Criminology, London: Sage

• Ferguson, A. G., (2017). The Rise of Big Data Policing: Surveillance, Race, and the Future of Law Enforcement, New York: New York University Press

• Hall, S and Winlow, S. (2012). New Directions in Criminological Theory, London: Routledge

• Nurse, A (2016). An Introduction to Green Criminology and Environmental Justice, London: Sage

• The library
• PCs with standard suite of University software providing access to e-mail, the internet, word processing, etc.
• Lecture rooms with access for disabled students, and suitable for group work
• The Blackboard virtual learning environment
• Full text journals database for Criminology (Sage)

Advanced Criminological Theory takes seven recently emerged and now contemporary key areas of criminological debate and argument and seeks to facilitate engagement with these most current and emergent theoretical paradigms. You will have to show higher level knowledge and understandings of the contours of contemporary criminology and its theoretical proponents, culminating in their ability to analyse, apply and reflect on the relevance and application of these emergent paradigms to an area or topic of criminological interest for them. The lectures are set around themes and issues that deal with emergent topics and fields of interest, and the studied perspectives are clearly linked and cross over. During the course of the module, you will deal not only with the theory, but consider emergent areas and topics that are at the centre of the discipline and which will be combined with discussion of emerging cases and examples. These can include:
Terrorism and Domestic Extremism, Homicide, Borders and Immigration, People Trafficking, Sex Trafficking, global warmings, sports violence in MMA and Ice Hockey, the V W emissions fraud, the case of Trafigura, the Grenfell Fire, School shootings, wildlife crime, the rise of Trump and the Violence in Charlottesville, plastic pollutions of the Oceans, Firearms Trafficking and New Novel Psychoactive Substances. The contemporary topics will be revisited each year.