Critical Perspectives on Criminal Justice and Social Control

Education facts

Code: RÄSN10

<p>What counts as deviant behaviour and crime is not given by nature. It varies across time, place, culture, and context. This course teaches you how we construct crime, justice, and social control, and how we could structure alternatives to established justice system institutions. </p><p>This master’s course takes a constructionist approach to crime, law, and social control. It offers you in-depth knowledge of social harm, criminal law, criminal policy from socio-legal, and criminological perspectives.</p><p>In the course’s three topics, you study how we construct crime and control. You explore current trends in criminal justice and policy and how they have developed. The final part of the course goes beyond standard criminal justice approaches and explores possible alternatives.</p><p>The teaching consists of lectures, exercises, and workshops where you present and comment on other students’ ongoing work. During the course, you produce and collect content to include in a portfolio. To pass the course, you must have received at least a grade of E. To receive a higher grade, part 1 (essay) must have received a higher grade.</p>

Entry requirements

To be admitted to the course, students must have at least Bachelor's degree including: 90 credits in the sociology of law or other relevant disciplines such as sociology, criminology, law, political science, social work, or the equivalent. Oral and written proficiency in English equivalent to English 6/B from Swedish upper secondary school is a requirement. International qualifications will be assessed in accordance with national guidelines. International students are excepted from the general entry requirements on to master Swedish.

Education offerings

Each offering has its own dates and conditions. Closed offerings are retained as history and do not mean that a new application is open.

• Critical Perspectives on Criminal Justice and Social Control

  Lund University

  Lund

  Start date: 2 November 2026

  End date: 1 December 2026

  Pace of study: 100 %