Critical Perspectives on Criminal Justice and Social Control

<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>