Module POL3193 for 2021/2
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
POL3193: Women in the Criminal Justice System: Law, Policy and Institutions
This module descriptor refers to the 2021/2 academic year.
How this Module is Assessed
In the tables below, you will see reference to 'ILO's. An ILO is an Intended Learning Outcome - see Aims and Learning Outcomes for details of the ILOs for this module.
Formative Assessment
A formative assessment is designed to give you feedback on your understanding of the module content but it will not count towards your mark for the module.
| Form of assessment | Size of the assessment (eg length / duration) | ILOs assessed | Feedback method |
|---|---|---|---|
| Consultation paper outline | 500 words | 1-5 | One-to-one oral feedback |
| Essay Outline | 500 words | 1-5 | One-to-one oral feedback |
Summative Assessment
A summative assessment counts towards your mark for the module. The table below tells you what percentage of your mark will come from which type of assessment.
| Coursework | Written exams | Practical exams |
|---|---|---|
| 80 | 0 | 20 |
...and this table provides further details on the summative assessments for this module.
| Form of assessment | % of credit | Size of the assessment (eg length / duration) | ILOs assessed | Feedback method |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Group presentation | 20 | 30 mins | 1-6 | Written and verbal feedback |
| Consultation paper | 30 | 2000 words | 1-5 | written feedback |
| Essay | 50 | 4000 word essay | 1-5 | written feedback |
| 0 | ||||
| 0 | ||||
| 0 |
Re-assessment
Re-assessment takes place when the summative assessment has not been completed by the original deadline, and the student has been allowed to refer or defer it to a later date (this only happens following certain criteria and is always subject to exam board approval). For obvious reasons, re-assessments cannot be the same as the original assessment and so these alternatives are set. In cases where the form of assessment is the same, the content will nevertheless be different.
| Original form of assessment | Form of re-assessment | ILOs re-assessed | Timescale for re-assessment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Group presentation | one-to-one, 15 min | 1-6 | August/September assessment period |
| Consultation paper | 2000 word consultation paper | 1-5 | August/September assessment period |
| Essay | 4000 word essay | 1-5 | August/September assessment period |
Indicative Reading List
This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.
Basic reading:
Ashworth, Andrew, and Jeremy Horder. 2013. Principles of criminal law. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Barberet. Rosemary. 2014. Women, crime and criminal justice: a global enquiry. Oxon: Routledge.
Bryson, Valerie. 2003. Feminist political theory: an introduction. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Canter, David, Maria Ioannou and Donna Youngs. 2009. Safer Sex in the City: The Experience and Management of Street Prostitution. Surrey: Ashgate Publishing Limited.
Chesney-Lind, M. and Pasko, L.J. 2003. The female offender: girls, women, and crime. Thousand Oaks, CS: Sage Publications.
Cook, Rebecca J., and Bernard M. Dickens. 2003. "Human rights dynamics of abortion law reform." Human Rights Quarterly 25(1): 1-59.
Cox, Pamela. 2003. Gender, justice and welfare: bad girls in Britain 1900-1950. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Childs, Sarah. 2008. "Women and British Party Politics." Descriptive, Substantive and Symbolic Representation Routledge: Taylor & Francis.
Gelsthorpe, L. and Morris, A. ed. 1990. Feminist Perspectives in Criminology. London: Open University Press.
Greer, Steven. 2006. The European Convention on Human Rights: achievements, problems and prospects. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Haussman, Melissa, and Birgit Sauer, eds. 2007. Gendering the state in the age of globalization: women's movements and state feminism in postindustrial democracies. Plymouth: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
Hausmann, M. 2013. Reproductive Rights and the State: Getting the Birth Control , RU-486 and Morning After Pills and the Gardasil Vaccine to the Us Market. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger.
Heidensohn, F. ed. 2006. Gender and justice: new concepts and approaches. Cullompton: Willan.
Krook, Mona Lena, and Fiona Mackay, eds. 2010. Gender, politics and institutions: Towards a feminist institutionalism. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Norris, Pippa, and Joni Lovenduski. 1995. Political recruitment: Gender, race and class in the British Parliament. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Peters, B. Guy. 2011. Institutional theory in political science: the new institutionalism. Bloomsbury Publishing USA.
Temkin, Jennifer, and Andrew Ashworth. 2004. "The Sexual Offences Act 2003:(1) Rape, sexual assaults and the problems of consent." Criminal Law Review 328-346.
