This course is available on the BSc in Language, Culture and Society, BSc in Social Policy and Sociology and BSc in Sociology. This course is available as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit. This course is available with permission to General Course students.
This course is available on the BSc in Language, Culture and Society, BSc in Social Policy and Sociology and BSc in Sociology. This course is available as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit. This course is available with permission to General Course students.
30 hours of workshops in the LT. Course Outline1. Introduction: What is homicide?? Definitions and the issues associated with them. Different types of homicide and global variations.? The issues and problems associated with researching homicide.2. Sherlock Holmes and CSI:? The impact of crime fiction and the media in perceptions of homicide3. Patterns of homicide: Using case studies from different countries and different social and political contexts (e.g. Russia, Jamaica, USA, Colombia, South Africa, and Britain) we explore different patterns of homicide and explanations for these patterns.4. Gender and homicide: Exploring the public/private dimensions of homicide and differential risk5. Race and homicide: Homicide disproportionately affects Black and minority ethnic victims yet this receives relatively little sociological attention.? We explore these patterns of homicide and the reasons for it.6. Reading week7. Investigating homicide: How do homicide investigations work? What are the issues associated with self-solver and ?who-dunnit? investigations? What issues affect the likelihood of perpetrators being caught?8. Homicide perpetrators: Why do homicides occur and what do we know about perpetrators?9. Living a life sentence: the experiences of murder victims? families.10. Presentations11. Synthesis: The sociological significance of homicide
Students will be expected to produce 1 piece of coursework in the LT. Students are expected to read, and prepare in advance, for each of the workshops.? Students must complete either a 1,500 word essay, or a poster, to be submitted in week 8, on one of the topics covered in weeks 2-5 of the course.
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Essay (80%, 3000 words) in the ST. Presentation (20%) in the LT. The essay length is between 2,500-3000 words.