Questioning crime: social harms and global issues

This free course, Questioning crime: social harms and global issues, introduces the concept of social harm as an alternative to the more familiar concept of 'crime' as a basis for studying aspects of the social world which are damaging or harmful. In doing so, it will encourage you to think critically about the strengths and limitations of criminology as a subject area.

Syllabus

Introduction
Learning outcomes
1 Introducing criminology, zemiology and social harm
1 Introducing criminology, zemiology and social harm
1.1 Introducing ‘crime’ and ‘harm’
1.2 Power and inequality in the study of social harm
2 What sort of a disaster was Hurricane Katrina?
2 What sort of a disaster was Hurricane Katrina?
2.1 Structural inequality and ways of seeing ‘natural disasters’
2.2 Johan Galtung and structural violence
2.3 Criminology and Hurricane Katrina: understanding ‘natural disasters’ through a legalistic approach?
2.4 Hurricane Katrina and the social harm approach
2.4 ‘Natural disasters’ and social harm
3 Corporations, prisons and global perspectives on crime and harm
3 Corporations, prisons and global perspectives on crime and harm
3.1 The prison industrial complex
3.2 Global governing of prisons in Britain?
3.3 The media, think tanks and the prison industrial complex
3.4 Prisons and social harm
3.5 Corporations, prisons and global perspectives on crime and harm
4 Social harm and the ‘War on Terror’
4 Social harm and the ‘War on Terror’
4.1 The ‘War on Terror’
4.2 What is terrorism?
4.3 Two discourses of terrorism
4.4 Counting the costs of the ‘War on Terror’: a social harm analysis
4.5 Security: do the ends justify the means?
4.6 ‘Reconfiguring security and liberty’
4.7 The ‘War on Terror’ and social harm
5 Sources of support
5 Sources of support
Conclusion
References
Acknowledgements