2017/18 Taught Postgraduate Module Catalogue

LAW5300M Security and Justice

30 creditsClass Size: 25

Module manager: Dr Conor O'Reilly
Email: C.Oreilly@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) View Timetable

Year running 2017/18

This module is not approved as an Elective

Objectives

On completion of this module, students should be able to ...

- To explore the key concepts, theories and approaches that are central to the understanding of security and justice
- To explore contemporary issues and late modern ‘anxieties’ concerning the practice and governance of security
- To understand the dimensions of security including human security, technologies of security and spaces of security
- To identify the links between security and justice and to critically analyse the relationship between the two
- To explore how theories and philosophies of justice may be applied in contemporary societies
- To identify and analyse the contexts in which security policies are developed and their impacts on justice and democratic principles.

Learning outcomes
Students will:

- Understand and analyse the relationships and tensions between security and justice;
- Understand the nuances in the semantics, politics and history of security as a concept and process;
- Critically analyse the new late modern anxieties shaping security;
- Understand the theories and philosophies of justice;
- Critically analyse theories of justice in relation to the realities of human rights, citizenship and inequality and the operation of institutions of justice in an international context
- Understand the debates surrounding the balance of security and justice and the related policy-making processes.

Skills outcomes
Critical analysis of theory, research, concepts and philosophies of security and justice

Critical reading across academic disciplinary boundaries

Use of the internet and electronic databases to research policy in the field and to conduct independent research

Syllabus

1. Introduction and overview
2. The traditional to non-traditional security agenda
3. Securitization & Governance: trans-national to national security
4. Insurgency, Counter-Terrorism & Psychology
5. Violent conflict patterns, armed conflict and civil war
6. Philosophy and ideologies of criminal justice
7. International Justice and international order: a history
8. Theories of International Justice and the 'R2P'
9. Transitional justice
10. Crowds, public order and security
11. Conclusion

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Seminars	11	2.00	22.00
Private study hours			278.00
Total Contact hours			22.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			300.00

Private study

Students will be required to read key readings in advance of the seminar and also prepare a summary of their readings in order to contribute meaningfully to discussion questions. The seminar readings and discussion questions will be provided in the module outline. Students will be expected to conduct independent reading and research for essay questions and to consult materials on the internet to augment their preparation for each seminar.

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

Weekly presentations from the students (a selected group each week) will allow for an understanding of how the students are engaging with the readings and content of the course. Furthermore, records will be kept, detailing the contributions made by students to the class discussion. A first summative essay will allow for progress to be monitored and enable individual feedback to be provided and addressed in advance of future assessed assignments. Informal meetings between the module convenor and individual students will also be arranged after the summative essay for verbal feedback.

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Essay	1 x 5,000 word	70.00
Poster Presentation	individual poster presentation	30.00
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: 14/09/2017

Disclaimer

Browse Other Catalogues

• Undergraduate module catalogue
• Taught Postgraduate module catalogue
• Undergraduate programme catalogue
• Taught Postgraduate programme catalogue

Errors, omissions, failed links etc should be notified to the Catalogue Team.PROD