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Gifts, Commodities and Crises: A contemporary guide to economic anthropology (ANT6003)
This module that uses ethnographic evidence from across the world to examine how humans exploit their environments (and each other) to make a living. Focus will be on how “value” is socially produced, on how to make sense of the different ways in which people produce, distribute, consume, accumulate, and own resources, and on how economic practices interact with other spheres of society.
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The Anthropology of, Justice and Morality: Legal Anthropology in the 21st Century (ANT6004)
This module teaches students to address global issues – from political correctness, to migration, to neo-nationalism - through the toolset of Legal Anthropology. What does law, justice and punishment look like in different societies? What is the relationship between morality, law, and the state? How are ideas of “good” and “bad” shaped by the socio-cultural context in which they are embedded?
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Futures Criminology (CRM6001)
The landscape of harm, crime and deviance is changing at a rapid pace. This module engages with a process of horizon scanning – attempting to identify new challenges and think about how criminology can usefully help us to understand and engage with emerging harms. This necessitates a critical reappraisal of the discipline itself as we engage with new methodologies, theories and paradigms.
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Systems of Oppression: violence and influencing for change (CRM6002)
The module will review key systems of oppression. Students will consider the social, political and economic forces that shape systems of oppression and harm, critically examining oppression as violence. The module explores racism, classism, patriarchy and ableism as systems of oppression by examining the processes and structures which underpin and sustain them. Over the course of the module students consider the community impact, institutional responses and undertake ongoing reflection on opportunities and practices which challenge violence and influence change.
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Social Change and Justice (CRM6003)
This module examines how attitudes towards crime and justice have changed and developed over time. It will demonstrate the importance of historically and socially contextualising specific crimes in order to increase the understanding of their contemporary relevance, alongside examining the political and economic context.
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Experiential Learning Opportunities (CRM6004A)
This is an employability-focused module. It provides students with opportunities to gain practical insights into the knowledge and skills of practitioners, and/or the workings of key social and State institutions (and related) organisations, via engagement with either short work-based placements, practical short courses, or participation in applied research projects, depending upon the annual availability of opportunities in each. Students will be encouraged to link such insights with their social science knowledge and understanding.
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Experiential Learning Opportunities (CRM6004B)
This is an employability-focused module. It provides students with opportunities to gain practical insights into the knowledge and skills of practitioners, and/or the workings of key social and State institutions (and related) organisations, via engagement with either short work-based placements, practical short courses, or participation in applied research projects, depending upon the annual availability of opportunities in each. Students will be encouraged to link such insights with their social science knowledge and understanding.
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Inside Knowledge: Crime and Justice in the 21st Century (CRM6005A)
Taking place inside HMP Exeter, with criminology students learning alongside students from the prison, this module focuses on crime and justice in the 21st century – namely that of the purpose of the justice system in the contemporary context. The module places a critical emphasis on the experience of learning about crime and justice within the prison context and working collaboratively as peers to create a critical and reflective dialogue around issues in crime and justice.
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Inside Knowledge: Crime and Justice in the 21st Century (CRM6005B)
Taking place within a criminal justice setting, such as a prison or resettlement/rehabilitation organisation, with criminology students learning alongside students with lived experience of the CJS, this module focuses on crime and justice in the 21st century - namely that of the purpose of the justice system in the contemporary context. The module places a critical emphasis on the experience of learning about crime and justice within a CJS context and working collaboratively as peers to create a critical and reflective dialogue around issues in crime and justice.
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Global (In)security and the State (CRM6007)
This module explores the issue of global (in)security in the context of state and non-state conflict. Theoretical and conceptual understandings of crime, violence, victimisation and justice will be used to interrogate acts such as war crimes and terrorism. The module will address the history of such crimes and will critically explore State and international responses.
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Leisure, Consumerism and Harm (CRM6008)
This module explores contemporary developments within the study of leisure and consumerism, offering a theoretically informed understanding of key issues at the forefront of the discipline. Students will have the opportunity to study the changing nature of criminology’s engagement with leisure against a backdrop of global consumer capitalism.
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Fear, Crime and Control in the City (CRM6009)
This module critically examines steadfast and emergent social issues at the interplay between social control and the social, providing students with a critical understanding of how the social is regulated socially, culturally and legally. We will do this by looking as social issues in urban space. We will explore meanings, cultural significance, and political consequences from a criminological perspective.
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Green Criminology (CRM6010MX)
This module will address theoretical perspectives, methodological issues, and empirical research related to the field of green criminology, including applied concerns, such as policy and social/political praxis, through a range of concepts, topics, and themes that are central to green criminology.
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Security Management (CRM6011MX)
This module provides students with a critical insight into the professional domain of security management. It provides an overview of the theories, policies, procedures and practices that underpin the work of the security manager, and focuses upon a career-relevant knowledge and understanding of this significant area of expertise.
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Media, State and Society (SOC6001)
The media occupy key arenas whereby various social groups compete with one another to set public, political, commercial and cultural agendas. This module examines the relationship between media, state and society. It covers a number of substantive topic areas such as environmental issues, terrorism, war reporting, gender, crime and violence.
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Food, Culture and Society (SOC6002)
This module aims to provide a critical understanding of sociological issues relating to food and foodways, (the beliefs and behaviours surrounding the production, distribution and consumption of food both on an individual and collective level). The module encourages critical reflection and practical experience of research in the area of food and foodways, with a focus on lived experience.