This module will enable students to understand and critically analyse historical, conceptual and theoretical ideas around the concepts of order and disorder fundamental to the study of crime and criminal justice in a global context. Students will examine the way political discourse and the mass media manufacture disorder and risk and the way that disorder is a material reality as well as a social construct. Theories on the mass media and social control, the new security discourse, the rise of the right and othering, power and agency will be considered. The module will evaluate the global economics of disorder; the impact of neoliberalism, global poverty and inequalities. It will consider the ways state actors are complicit in transnational crime and the CJS itself contributes to global disorder. Finally, students will examine 'justice' and penalty in the context of international criminal law and the rise and influence of social justice movements.
This module will enable students to understand and critically analyse historical, conceptual and theoretical ideas around the concepts of order and disorder fundamental to the study of crime and criminal justice in a global context. Students will examine the way political discourse and the mass media manufacture disorder and risk and the way that disorder is a material reality as well as a social construct. Theories on the mass media and social control, the new security discourse, the rise of the right and othering, power and agency will be considered. The module will evaluate the global economics of disorder; the impact of neoliberalism, global poverty and inequalities. It will consider the ways state actors are complicit in transnational crime and the CJS itself contributes to global disorder. Finally, students will examine 'justice' and penalty in the context of international criminal law and the rise and influence of social justice movements.
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