Perspectives in Criminology

Assessment:
RESEARCH Essay (2,000 Words) Worth: 60%
Due:
BEFORE Friday 27 May, 2016, 5:00 PM
Write an essay answering one of the following questions:
1. Citing examples, discuss the relationship between neoliberal ideology and corporate crime.
2. Discuss recent public concern surrounding outlaw motorcycle gangs in relation to law and order politics. Has a “law and order common sense” been produced in public and media discourse? How and to what effect?
3. Discuss how the process of privatisation can be seen as related to risk, fear and insecurity using the example of the growth of the private security industry.
4. The International Criminal Court receives criticism for being unable to fulfil its mandate. Critically discuss the contradictions that its goal of “global justice” raises in relation to issues of sovereignty.
• Please note that for this assignment you are required to cite at least 10 academic references. Note: Wikipedia, lecture notes and media articles are NOT academic references. If you do use media articles, these will be considered in addition to your required references.
• Students are strongly encouraged to extend their research to additional readings. Please visit the library website for literacy resources.
• Assessment guidance will be provided in tutorials.
1. ESSAY PREPARATIONS AND RESEARCH:
• You need to relate your essay to the specific topic provided in this Guide. You cannot create your own topic. It is essential that you read the instructions for your assignment.
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• Make sure you follow the Harvard referencing style guide from the UWS Library website.
• Preparation is key to good writing. The more time you spend mapping out your assignment, the more likely it is that you will produce a coherent and convincing argument.
2. ESSAY STRUCTURE, CONTENT AND PRESENTATION:
• Your essay should be 1.5 or double spaced.
• Your assignment should be sufficiently titled so as to indicate the question you have selected.
• Your reference list must be included at the end of your essay. Failure to include a reference list can result in an automatic failure and can constitute serious academic misconduct.
• Avoid overly long sentences and. Simple is better.
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• You need to read your essay prior to submission. If it doesn’t make sense to you, it won’t make sense to your marker either.
• RUN A SPELLING AND GRAMMAR CHECK.
• Make sure all your references are fully and properly acknowledged (including page numbers for direct quotations
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Recommended Readings
Week 1: Introduction to Perspectives in Criminology
• Garland, D 2001, ‘The new culture of crime control’, in The culture of control: crime and social order in contemporary society, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 167-92.
• Garland, D & Sparks, R 2000, ‘Criminology, social theory and the challenge of our times’, in Criminology and social theory, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 1-22.
Week 2: Globalisation and the Changing Nature of Crime
• Aas, F 2007, ‘Crime, fear and social exclusion in the global village’, in Globalization and crime, Sage, London, pp. 1-26.
• Gillespie, W 2006, ‘Capitalist world-economy, globalization, and violence: implications for criminology and social justice’, International Criminal Justice Review, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 20-44.
Week 3: Neoliberalism, Responsibilisation and Shifting Forms of Crime Prevention
• Muncie, J 2005, ‘The globalization of crime control – the case of youth and juvenile justice: neo-liberalism, policy convergence and international conventions’, Theoretical Criminology, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 35-64.
• O’Malley, P 2008, ‘Neo-liberalism and risk in criminology’, in T Anthony & C Cunneen (eds), The critical criminology companion, Hawkins Press, Sydney, pp. 55-67.
Week 4: Sovereignty, Transnational Crime and the Impact of its Counter-measures
• McCulloch, J 2007, ‘Transnational crime as productive fiction’, Social Justice, vol. 34, no. 2, pp. 19-32.
• Pickering, S 2004, ‘The production of sovereignty and the rise of transversal policing: people-smuggling and federal policing’, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, vol. 37, no. 3, pp. 362-79.
Week 5: Law and Order Trends
• Brown, D & Hogg, R 1996, ‘Law and order commonsense’, Current Issues in Criminal Justice, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 175-91.
• Kraska, PB 2007, ‘Militarization and policing – its relevance to 21st century police’, Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice, vol. 1, no. 4, pp. 501-13.
Week 6: Corporate Crime and Crimes Against the Environment.
• Friedrichs, DO 2007, ‘White-collar crime in a postmodern, globalized world’, in H Pontell & G Geis (eds), International handbook of white-collar and corporate crime, Springer, New York, pp. 163-84.
• White, R 2005, ’Environmental crime in global context: exploring the theoretical and emprical complexities’, Current Issues in Criminal Justice, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 271-85
Week 7: Crime, Space and Social Exclusion
• Martin, G 2011, ‘Showcasing security: the politics of policing space at the 2007 Sydney APEC meeting’, Policing and Society, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 27-48.
• Young, J 1999, ‘From inclusive to exclusive society’, in The exclusive society: social exclusion, crime and difference in late modernity, Sage, London, pp. 1-30.
Week 9: State Crimes, War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity
• Green, P & Ward, T 2004, ‘War crimes’, in State crime: governments, violence and corruption, Pluto Press, London, pp. 147-64.
• Grewcock, M 2008, ‘State crime: some conceptual issues’, in T Anthony & C Cunneen (eds), The critical criminology companion, Hawkins Press, Leichhardt, Australia, pp. 146-57.
Week 10: Torture and Indefinite Detention
• Pratt, J 1995, ‘Dangerousness, risk and technologies of power’, Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 3-31.
• Stanley, E 2008, ‘Torture and terror’, in T Anthony & C Cunneen (eds), The critical criminology companion, Hawkins Press, Leichhardt, Australia, pp. 158-68.
Week 11: Privatisation and the Growth of Criminal Justice
• Loader, I 2000, ‘Plural policing and democratic governance’, Social & Legal Studies, vol. 9, pp. 323-45.
• Pratt, J 2008, ‘Penal populism and the contemporary role of punishment’, in T Anthony & C Cunneen (eds), The critical criminology companion, Hawkins Press, Leichhardt, Australia, pp. 265-76.
Week 12: Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism
• McCulloch, J & Pickering, S 2009, ‘Pre-crime and counter-terrorism: imagining future crime in the ‘war on terror”, British Journal of Criminology, vol. 49, no. 5, pp. 628-45.
• Michaelsen, C 2012, ‘The triviality of terrorism’, Australian Journal of International Affairs, vol. 66, no. 4, pp. 431-49.
Week 13: Global Criminal Justice Administration
• Findlay, M 2008, ‘Globalised crime and governance: the outcomes for understanding international criminal justice’, in T Anthony & C Cunneen (eds), The critical criminology companion, Hawkins Press, Leichhardt, Australia, pp. 315-29.
• Kwon, O 2007, ‘The challenge of an international criminal trial as seen from the bench’, Journal of International Criminal Justice, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 360-76.
Additional Readings:
• Agamben, G 1998, ‘Part One: the logic of sovereignty’, in Homo sacer: sovereign power and bare life, Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA, pp. 4-46.
• Brown, D 2008, ‘Giving voice: the prisoner and discursive citizenship’, in T Anthony & C Cunneen (eds), The critical criminology companion,Hawkins Press, Leichhardt, Australia, pp. 228-39.
• Christie, N 2000, ‘Dangerous states’, in M Brown & J Pratt (eds), Dangerous offenders: punishment and social order, Routledge, London, pp. 181-92.
• Cohen, S 1995, ‘State crimes of previous regimes: knowledge, accountability, and the policing of the past’, Law & Social Inquiry, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 7-50.
• Findlay, M 1999, Globalisation of crime: understanding traditional relationships in contexts, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
• Foucault, M 2003, ‘Confronting governments: human rights’, in P Rabinow & N Rose (eds), The essential Foucault: selections from essential works of Foucault, 1954-1984, New Press, New York, pp. 64-5.
• Foucault, M 2003, ‘Security, territory, and population’, in P Rabinow & N Rose (eds), The essential Foucault: selections from essential works of Foucault, 1954-1984, New Press, New York, pp. 259-61.
• Garland, D 1996, ‘The limits of the sovereign state: strategies of crime control in contemporary society’, British Journal of Criminology, vol. 36, no. 4, pp. 445-71.
• Hill, S & Beger, R 2009, ‘A paramilitary policing juggernaut’, Social Justice, vol. 36, no. 1, pp. 25-40.
• Hubbard, P 2003, ‘Fear and loathing at the multiplex: everyday anxiety in the post-industrial city’, Capital & Class, vol. 27, no. 80, pp. 51-75.
• Lister, S 2006, ‘Painting the town blue: the pluralisation of policing’, Criminal Justice Matters, vol. 63, no. 1, pp. 22-3.
• Massari, M 2003, ‘Transnational organized crime between myth and reality – the social construction of a threat’, in F Allum & R Siebert (eds),Organized crime and the challenge to democracy, Routledge, London, pp. 55-69.
• McCulloch, J & Tham, J 2005, ‘Secret state, transparent subject: the Australian security intelligence organisation in the age of terror’ The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, vol. 38, no. 3: 400-15.
• Michalowski, R 2009, ‘Power, crime and criminology in the new imperial age’, Crime, Law and Social Change, vol. 51, no. 3-4, pp. 303-25.
• Sudbury, J 2000, Transatlantic visions: resisting the globalization of mass incarceration, Social Justice, vol. 27, no. 3, pp. 133-49.
• Wood, J 2005, ‘Understanding global trends in policing: explanatory and normative dimensions’, in J Sheptycki & A Wardak (eds),Transnational and comparative criminology, Glasshouse Press, London, pp. 287-316.
• Zedner, L 2003, ‘Too much security’, International Journal of the Sociology of Law, vol. 31, no. 3, pp. 155-84.

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