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Overview

This topic draws on popular culture and the meditated nature of our contemporary digital world to explore how we encounter crime. The topic engages with a vast array of phenomenon (e.g. news media, film, documentary, television shows and podcasts) to explore the ways that crime is packaged, represented and consumed. … For more content click the Read More button below.

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Aims

This topic aims to:

  • Introduce students to the different ways that crime pervades our lives (on the news, in books, on Social Media and on the screen as entertainment etc.)
  • Provide a conceptual overview of the complex ways that we consume crime in society (and how this has evolved in the past 100 odd years)
  • To prompt students to explore why - despite being fearful of/disturbed by crime - we find it alluring and crave vicarious exposure to it

Learning outcomes

On completion of this topic you will be expected to be able to:
1.
Identify the different ways that people encounter crime and be able to comment on the nuanced ways that such an encounter occurs
2.
Identify the key social debates and/or controversies attached to the particular ways that people encounter crime
3.
Conduct some independent research into one of the themes of the topic using quality academic resources to elucidate an appreciation of the complexities of that chosen area of study
4.
Critique the mode(s) through which people encounter crime (e.g. news media, television, film, social media, video games) to elucidate how that mode shapes or influences perceptions of crime

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Requisites information

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