Dr Johann Koehler

This course is compulsory on the MSc in Criminal Justice Policy. This course is available on the LLM (extended part-time), LLM (full-time), MSc in Human Rights and Politics, MSc in Inequalities and Social Science, MSc in International Social and Public Policy, MSc in International Social and Public Policy (Development), MSc in International Social and Public Policy (Education), MSc in International Social and Public Policy (LSE and Fudan), MSc in International Social and Public Policy (Migration), MSc in International Social and Public Policy (Non-Governmental Organisations), MSc in International Social and Public Policy (Research), MSc in Political Sociology, MSc in Public Policy and Administration and University of Pennsylvania Law School LLM Visiting Students. This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit.

All Social Policy Courses are ‘Controlled Access’. Please see the link below for further details on the allocation process:

https://info.lse.ac.uk/current-students/services/course-choice/controlled-access-courses

The course provides a detailed and critical foundation in the study of crime and criminal justice, through a focus on some of its constitutive ideas, institutions, practices, and participants. Lectures in the first half of term provide an overview of a criminological understanding of crime and deviance. Lectures in the second half of term provide an overview of a criminological understanding of justice policy. Throughout the course, particular emphasis is devoted to the historical, conceptual, and theoretical traditions that make up — and subvert — criminology’s canon.

All teaching will be in accordance with the LSE Academic Code (https://info.lse.ac.uk/current-students/lse-academic-code) which specifies a "minimum of two hours taught contact time per week when the course is running in the Autumn Term (AT) and/or Winter Term (WT)". Social Policy courses are predominantly taught through a combination of in-person Lectures and In person classes/seminars. Further information will be provided by the Course Convenor in the first lecture of the course.

The course will be delivered in AT.

Students will be expected to answer a set of broad questions every week, which will be similar to the summative exam questions and related to the lecture and seminar material covered in that week.

• Christie, N. (1977). Conflicts as property. British Journal of Criminology, 1-15.
• Liebling, A., Maruna, S., & McAra, L. (Eds.). (2023). The Oxford Handbook of Criminology, 7th ed. Oxford University Press.
• Newburn, T. (2017). Criminology, 3rd ed. Routledge.
• Newburn, T. (Ed.). (2009). Key Readings in Criminology. Willan Publishing.
• Phillips, C., Earle, R., Parmar, A., & Smith, D. (2020). Dear British criminology: Where has all the race and racism gone?. Theoretical Criminology, 24(3), 427-446.
• Zedner, L. (2004). Criminal justice. Oxford University Press.

Online assessment (100%) in January.

Assessment is a final Online Assessment comprising questions of varying length that test mastery of the concepts and issues covered throughout the course, duration 3.5 hours.