Overview

This topic aims to uncover how crime is reported and/or represented, often in the media or by governments, and how these representations are used to construct the phenomena of crime, which in turn shapes community reactions to crime. In doing so, the topic will introduce students to basic research concepts … For more content click the Read More button below.  

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Aims

This topic encourages students to unpack how crime is reported or represented and interpreted, and to think critically about how this shapes community knowledge of and/or attitudes to crime. It will also introduce students to basic research methods and analysis.

Learning outcomes

On completion of this topic you will be expected to be able to:
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Apply and/or engage with basic issues, concepts, and debates regarding social research methods and the presentation of crime data
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Classify various sources or representations of crime and describe their role in the presentation of official crime data/policy
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Interpret, visually represent/graph, and apply key sources of crime data
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Apply basic research methods to examine how crime data and methodologies are shaped key criminological perspectives or epistemologies

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