2016/17 Taught Postgraduate Module Catalogue

LAW5386M Globalisation and Crime

15 creditsClass Size: 20

Module manager: Prof Graham Farrell
Email: g.farrell@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: 1 Sep to 31 Jan (Adv pre 2223), Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) View Timetable

Year running 2016/17

Module replaces

LAW5385 Transnational Crime

This module is approved as an Elective

Module summary

This course will introduce students to global crime. The transnational flows of illegal goods and services, trafficking in drugs, human beings and arms are recognized as major threats to the international community. Globalization has come with a proliferation of international criminal justice and legal instruments to combat transnational crime, and simultaneously deepened the “security and justice gap” between the Global North and South. Globalization has engendered as much universality as variety in crime and justice across the globe. The course will introduce students to the field of global crime and justice and unpack the relationship between globalization and crime. As globalization brings differences to the fore, we need new comparative perspectives; as it increases illegal and legal flows of goods, services and humans, we need new perspectives and instruments of analysis. Cities are the spaces where the global meets the local and shapes urban crime; the links between mass violence and globalization will be explored. Theories from the South confront and question established criminological thinking in the North. Students will analyse in which ways crime and justice problems in their countries are linked to globalization and its impact. They will analyse different types of transnational crimes like human trafficking, or transnational white collar crime and corruption.

Objectives

- To introduce students to perspectives in global criminology
- To introduce students to comparative perspectives, both cross-national and cross-cultural, on crime, and how differences across the globe are related to globalization.
- To encourage students to widen their horizon through developing comparative perspectives on crime and justice, and theorizing the causes for cultural and structural variation in crime in the context of globalization .
- To provide students with the necessary theoretical and methodological tools to situate their own country in its regional and global context,
- To encourage students to think about the impact of globalization on crime, and critically to assess and analyse its consequences.
- To introduce students to the manifestations of new forms of transnational and international crimes, their causes and their prevention.
- To discuss these issues drawing on a wide range of sources and geo-political contexts, using international and regional data bases, and country case studies
- Conceptual understanding and critical evaluation of research and advanced scholarship in the field of transnational crime
- Comprehensive understanding of various instruments to prevent and combat transnational crime

Learning outcomes
On completion of this module students will have:
- systematic understanding of theoretical concepts in particular in relation to globalisation
- systematic understanding and critical awareness of transnational crime and its local manifestations ;
-- comprehensive and critical understanding of international and comparative date on globalization and crime;
- conceptual understanding to critically evaluate research and advanced scholarship on the impact of globalisation on crime;
- comprehensive understanding of various instruments to prevent and combat transnational crime.

Skills outcomes
- Apply both new and existing knowledge and understanding of both global and local dynamics of transnational crime;
- Critically evaluate relevant explanatory criminological concepts, assess their suitability for the analysis of transnational crime;
- Advanced knowledge and understanding and usage of international and national data, and data sources to make critical assessments of the reliability anf validity of risks, revenues and scope of transnational crime;
- Communicate information and critically reflect upon a range of materials, including case studies, databases, website and theoretical work, bot verbally and in writing.

Syllabus

1. Globalisation and transnational crime: concepts and explanations
2. Markets, goods and trafficking: arms, drugs, antiquities, protected species
3. Migration and human trafficking I
4. Terrorism
5. Money laundering and white collar transnational crime: illegal and legal global economies

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Seminar	5	3.00	15.00
Private study hours			135.00
Total Contact hours			15.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			150.00

Private study

Private study time 135 hours. Students will be instructed to read, make themselves familiar with databases and websites, relevant organisations, etc. They will be instructed to prepare a presentation on a case study of a specific crime/criminal actor/country on which they will base their assessments, and they will prepare and write their essay.

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

Registers of attendance will be taken and absences dealt with through normal School channels.

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Essay	4,500 words	100.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		100.00

Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 19/01/2017

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