HU Credits: 4

Degree/Cycle: 2nd degree (Master)

Responsible Department: criminology

Semester: 2nd Semester

Teaching Languages: Hebrew

Campus: Mt. Scopus

Course/Module Coordinator: Prof. Shalhoub-Kevorkian Nadera

Coordinator Email: msnadera@mscc.huji.ac.il

Coordinator Office Hours: Mondays, Between 14:00-16:00 by appointment

Teaching Staff:
Prof Nadera Kevorkian

Course/Module description:
The course will introduce advanced theories in criminology based on two approaches: conflict and critical criminology while examining feminist criminology, post modernist criminology, post-colonial criminology and more.

Course/Module aims:
a. To expose students to theoretical, methodological and empirical knowledge.
b. To expose students to recent scholarship.
c. To address current terminological issues.

Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
a. Critical writing and thinking.
b. In depth analysis of the workings of power and it affect on crime and deviance

Attendance requirements(%):
80%

Teaching arrangement and method of instruction: prontal

Course/Module Content:
race, crime and gender, hate crimes, juvenile delinquency, state crime, globalization and crime, political economy and crime.

Required Reading:
Lyon, D., 2008. Identification practices: state formation, crime control, colonialism and war. In K. F. Aas, H. O. Gundhus, & H. M. Lomell, eds. Technologies of (In)Security: The Surveillance of Everyday Life. New York: Routledge-Cavendish, pp. 42-58.
Neocleous, M., 2007. Security, Commodity, Fetishism. Critique, 35(3), pp.339-355.
Neocleous, M. (2003). Staging power: Marx, Hobbes and the personification of a capital
Walklate, S. (2008). What is to be done about violence against women? Gender, violence, cosmopolitanism and the law
1. Lynch, Michael J., and Raymond J. Michalowski. 2006. A primer in radical criminology: Critical perspectives on crime, power, and identity. 4th ed. Monsey, NY: Criminal Justice Press.
2. Gabe Mythen and Sandra Walklate (2006). Criminology and Terrorism
Which Thesis? Risk Society or Governmentality? British Journal of Criminology. British Journal of Criminology Volume 46, Issue 3
Pp. 379-398
.

3. Andrew Woolford (2006).
Making Genocide Unthinkable: Three Guidelines for a Critical Criminology of Genocide

Critical Criminology . Volume 14, Issue 1, pp 87-106 .
4. Jude McCulloch and Sharon Pickering (2005).
Suppressing the Financing of Terrorism
Proliferating State Crime, Eroding Censure and Extending Neo-colonialism 45 ( 4 ) Pp. 470-486 .

Additional Reading Material:
The articles published during the past two years in:
The British Journal of Criminology and Theoretical Criminology and Criminology

Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 0 %
Presentation 0 %
Participation in Tutorials 0 %
Project work 0 %
Assignments 0 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 100 %
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Additional information:
a. Active participation-20%
b. Summery of Two articles-30%
c. Presentation of criminological concern while using recent articles-20%
d. Submission of final paper-30%