Course Details
Country:
United Kingdom
Institution:
University of Surrey
Course Title:
Youth, Crime and Control
Course Number:
SOC3057
Course Description:
This module traces the social relations between youth, crime, and changing social, political and policy cultures. The ways young people have been responded to by a variety of controlling agencies, such as the police, prison system, and more social welfare orientated agencies such as social services has been a recurrent theme in criminology. This has encompassed critical questions with respect to; why young people receive more focus than adults? What kinds of young people are subject to greater levels of intervention? Whether this is just or necessary? And in what ways have particular social control technologies affected the lives of young people? This module will place particular focus on specific technologies of control, how and why they have developed, and the significance these have for the practical outcomes of policy agendas such as ‘youth diversion’, ‘anti-social behaviour’ and ‘youth justice’. Overall, the module will encourage students to actively apply the
Language:
English
Approved Equivalent:
CRIM 302
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