Module POL3240 for 2020/1
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
POL3240: Women in the Criminal Justice System: Law, Policy and Institutions
This module descriptor refers to the 2020/1 academic year.
Module Aims
The course is divided into policy domains that ach comprise three parts; the first will concern how women are regulated in the 21st century, including the current statutory schemes, and the range of legal and policy instruments designed to shape and influence behaviour. The second section will question why these policy domains are shaped in this manner, and the influence of key institutions in this process will be critically examined. Finally, the consequences of such governance both for women directly engaged in such activities, and for the gender more generally, will be evaluated, and future lessons for policymakers suggested.
| On successfully completing the programme you will be able to: | |
|---|---|
| Module-Specific Skills | 1. Understand the nature of how women are regulated across the three legal jurisdictions of the UK 2. Critically assess how law and policy is created and perpetuated across these policy domains |
| Discipline-Specific Skills | 3. Analyse a range of theoretical approaches to comparative policy analysis, including New Institutionalism and Europeanization 4. Analyse the role of key institutions and actors both at the macro level of policy formulation, and at the micro implementation stage |
| Personal and Key Skills | 5. Communicate ideas effectively in a small group setting and through written work 6. Demonstrate advanced IT skills through extended presentations |
Module Content
Syllabus Plan
Whilst the module’s precise content may vary from year to year, it is envisaged that the syllabus will cover some or all of the following topics:
- The organisation of political life and the role of supranational lawAbortion policy and reproductive freedom
- Evidence based policymaking and professionals
- The regulation of prostitution
- Sex for Sale in the EU
- Women Who Kill
- Pornography
- Interest groups and human rights legislation
- 9Rape legislation
- Policy implementation and SLBs
- Girls and juvenile offending
Learning and Teaching
This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:
| Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities | Guided independent study | Placement / study abroad |
|---|---|---|
| 22 | 128 |
...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:
| Category | Hours of study time | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Scheduled learning and teaching activities | 22 | 11 x two-hour seminars |
| Guided independent study | 44 | Reading and preparation for seminars |
| Guided independent study | 17 | Research and writing of group presentation |
| Guided independent study | 25 | Research and writing of consultation paper |
| Guided independent study | 42 | Research and writing of essay |
Online Resources
This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).
Other Learning Resources
Cooper, Sarah. 2016. Regulating Women: Policymaking and Practice in the UK. Rowman and Littlefield. Chapter 1.
Lowndes, Vivien and Mark Roberts. 2013. Why Institutions Matter: The New Institutionalism in Political Science. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Peters, B. Guy .2011. Institutional Theory in Political Science: The New Institutionalism. London: Pinter.
Krook, Mona Lena, and Fiona Mackay, eds. 2010. Gender, Politics and Institutions: Towards a Feminist Institutionalism. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan.
Stern, Baroness Vivien. 2010. The Stern Review: A Report by Baroness Vivien Stern CBE of an Independent Review into How Rape Complaints are Handled by Public Authorities in England and Wales. Government Equalities Office and Home office, London.
