An introduction to crime and criminology
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Explore the world of crime and criminology with our introductory course. Learn about vandalism, graffiti, and the study of crime from multiple perspectives. Develop your criminological imagination and gain a new understanding of crime and justice. Enroll now!
Crime evokes a wide variety of reactions in people: fear, anger, fascination, excitement, curiosity. This course, An introduction to crime and criminology, considers the relatively common-place problem of vandalism in the form of graffiti as one example
Through which to explore your own views about an everyday sort of crime.
The course goes on to consider how social scientists and criminologists, in particular, study and seek to understand problems of crime. The course invites you to develop what can be called your ‘criminological imagination’. This, in part, involves viewing
Criminological issues or problems from multiple perspectives but also encourages you to recognise that private troubles and social issues are often linked together.
Course learning outcomes
After studying this course, you should be able to:
Provide a basic definition of ‘crime’
Demonstrate that ideas about what a crime is and what it is not are often contested
Provide a definition of what criminology is and the subject matter it pertains to
Understand what criminologists ‘do’
Develop and use criminological imagination to think about problems of crime and justice in new ways, going beyond everyday understandings.
